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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 PUNCTUATES__WITH _PUNCHES fetJW i g, I / 1 / Y Jlh' \\i Wwl ' \\ i a f // \\ ML > \ \ > lak ■ .-AWr/ / \\ ui?- & 9 9 ' V Va V/ \ . v'‘ ‘ .... gr ■? J/ \\ *> \ % -J/ \\ A \■ ' > F -w/ \ ® X M > W / \ • * ’' -? s s|||SeL / ■ ■ • -4 s ' Kepreseniativ i Wpltpr McElre-itii, of Fulton, in action, using his emphatic gesture, “the Mc- Elreath punch,” delivered straight front the shoulder. 1 - _ 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 DR. WM. M. BAIRD Brown-Randolph Bldg. Atlanta, Qa. ment are features of my office. Exam- | Inatlona free Office hours S to 7; Sun days and holidays 10 to 1. My mono- ! ■raphs tree In plain, sealed wrapper. 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. Drives Sallowness from the Skin Ladlei. imperfect complexion ii canted by a «luggi«h livei. A few days treatment with CARTER’S LITTLE tIVER PILLS will do more to clean up janw the ikin than all the beauty creami in creation. 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"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. gaby’s Boicfe«W>. Every woman’s heart responds to the charm and sweetness of a baby’s voice, becauso nature intended her for motherhood. But even the loving nature of a mother shrinks from the ordeal because such a time is usually a period of suffering and danger. 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