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4 ‘LAD WANTED TO SEE TRAIN WRECK. SO HE THREW SWITCH OPEN AURORA, ILL. Vug I.' Lawrence Gilman, aged eleven, h . ; lived boide the Chicago and No: tI." • -•■ in -aiiroad for nearly a year and did not si e an accident. H. nad about fliem and was curious So he threw switch, then aat in his moth< and watched a pass. train crash into a string of fre ght Th.l is -th< t was told to th< offi I ' ■ rai oad today. The boy confessed to the polict after a vain effort n th< ties to discover rhe ‘’ansi of the acci dent, in which a numhir of people were Shaken and jolted and severely hurt No Death Claim Contested Where proof of death has been established no claim has ever been contested by The Southern States Life Insurance Company. With the home office located in the heart of the South and deposits in many local banks, The Southern States Life has won an enviable reputation for prompt payment of claims. General Agents wanted for unfilled territory Local Agents wanted in all territories y Co-operation of the. Company with their agents, together with their unmatched policies, make agents’ contracts with The Southern States Life profitable. The Southern States Ute Insurance Co. ATLANTA, X «G A. w - S - McLEOD > Supervisor of Agents WILMER L. MOORE. Pre*. (jCOTgia For the rest of this week we are going to sell our SI.OO FLASHLIGHT • FOR 65 CENTS See our Window KING HARDWARE CO. 53 Peachtree Street J. M.High Company. Clearing Men’s Summer Underwear At Off All cool Summer Underwear, in the highest grades, of which we show quite the largest collection in the city, has now been marked down 1 -4 off regular prices, including: Genuine Si-rivcn Union Suits | / Genuine " Porosknit ” Union Suits / The famous B. D. Union Suits / The Best Nainsook Garments / The Best Balbriggan (Jarments Men’s $1.50 Soft Negligee Shirts A beautiful line of patterns in soft, imported Madras rtTi Shirts, made by mie of the highest Mass Shirt makers 1 w|| | in the eouhtry: Shirts that tit right and are correotly jj made. Our regular $1.50 values, tomorrow ehoice.... VETERANS MEET ON SPOT WHERE THEY WENT TO WAR ROME. GA Aug. 15.—0 n the same spot where they gathered 52 years ago t-> tight for the Stars and Bars, the surviving members of Company G, Twenty-second infantry, met today for a feast and speeehmaklng There ar<- 25 members of Company G left One of them is Policeman Jo seph Sharp, of Rome. He is the chief spirit of the annual reunions The survivors of this old company meet each yehr at Silver Creek, on the spot where they organized. August 15. IS6I. and talk of war times and eat barbecue The spot where Company G was organized is marked The chief addresses today were made bv Colonel W. S. McHenry and Judge \V. H. Henry. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS THURSDAY. AUGUST 15. 1912. SMALL MODESTY IN TAFT CLAIMS i Hilles Says the President Will Carry 34 States- Concedes Wilson 10. T. R. None. CHICAGO, Aug. 15.—f'barles D. Hilles, chairman of the Republican na tional committee, here to arrange for the opening of the campaign, has issued his first statement. He "claims” the ejection of William Howard Taft by a vote of 384 in the electoral college, which this year will have 532 votes. One hundred and fourteen of these votes. Hlllr-s asserts, will go to Wilson. Thirty-four are doubtful. In his esti mate, the Progressive party is blandly disregarded. Taft, according to Hilles, will carry 34 states. Wilson is conceded ten. All Southern and four Western states are listed as doubtful. The states given Wilson are Ala bama. Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Lou isiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina. Texas and Virginia! The doubtful ones, according to the Hilles prophecy, are Arizona, California, Okla homa and Nebraska. All the rest, in cluding Kansas, where the Taft men have not yet figured out the way to get Taft electors on the Republican ticket, are claimed for the president. Hilles’ disregard of the Progressive , ticket Is based on the belief that it will draw about evenly from the two old parties, not materially affecting the re sult. MANY FIRMS INCREASE ATLANTA PHONE SERVICE In preparation for the big increase in fall trade, many Atlanta houses are now or dering more trunk lines. The truly phenomenal growth of our traffic and i subscribers and the present efficiency of our competitive service has occasioned care ful investigation and then additional trunk lines. Modern and progressive, the Atlanta Phone service is typical of the “Atlanta ' Spirit." Atlanta Telephone and Telegraph Co. A. B. CONKLIN, lien. Mgr. SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS ON GEORGIA POLITICS By JAMES B. NEVIN. ; For a time last night the atmosphere of I the Georgia general assembly fairly | reeked with sentiment. In the senate, along about midnight, Senator Roberts, on behalf of the entire membership, presented President Slaton with a beautiful loving cup. • Senator Roberts made a great presenta tion speech, too. It took Mr Slaton off his feet, and he experienced considerable difficulty, despite the traditional senato rial dignity theoretically attaching to him, in getting his response of thanks and ap preciation out,of his system. Finally he did get It out. however, and when lie sat down the senate was thor oughly convinced that it loved old Jack Slaton to a fare-you-well, and that old Jack returned the sentiment beyond the sha.low of a doubt! Apparently it was just between Jack and the senate—right in the family—and if anybody there thought of the fact that the presiding officer is more than ordinar ily sure to be the next governor, why— well, that idea likely didn't cross any sen atorial mind at all! It was a happy occasion and a pretty incident, and well worth sitting through a lot of preliminary legislating to witness. But the sentimental business in the senate had nothing whatever on the sen timental 'business in the house. Over the,re Hooper Alexander, Joe Hill Hall, George Brown, et a!., were garland ing rainbows all around and about the place, and forgiving and forgetting Was running wild and riot! , George Brown presented, on behalf of the house, a lovely—that’s what Mrs. Holder called ft—silver bouillon set — that's also what Mrs. Holder called it—to the speaker. And Dr. Brown certainly • used up a picturesque lot of language handing John Holder that silver thing! The gentleman from Fulton soared aloft and snatched a handful of stars from the vaulted dome of azure blue—or words to that effect—and then he dived to the dark, unfathomed caves of the ocean to see what was doing there tn the way of beauty and gems of purest ray serene. He wandered by the wayside looking for flowers that might there be blushing all unseen, and such things as he gathered he laid a willing tribute at the speaker’s feet! That was some speech old Doc Brown delivered last night, and It will go down in Georgia legislative history as easily ■ !8-carat fine' • Mr Holder’s response Was all it should have been. He declared, in the words of one of the "latest and most popular songs of the day.” that all he wanted was love, sweet love! And he said he felt satisfied that he had it —great gobs and festoons of it—all wrapped up In the bouillon thing, the which he expe.cted to hand down in the Holder family for the next 2,000 or 3,000 years, he didn't know which, and didn't care particularly; it was all so delightful and generous, and so forth and so on. And then Carl Vinson, the speaker pro tem. got his. and John T. Boifeuillet and Matchless McClatchey and Bismarck Moore got theirs, and "Bob" Hardeman, the chairman of the pestiferous commit tee on rules, got his, and there was some eloquence and near-weeping and no wail ing and gnashing of teeth, and—oh. it was a great, little old night, gentle reader! And. oh yes. the “young gentlemen of the press,” who sit away down front, at INVALID WHO SHOT HIMSELF TO RID HIS WIFE OF CARE DIES McGhee Ferguson, former Southern railway conductor, who shot himself at his home, 165 West Pine street, Mon day morning because he felt that he was a burden to his family, died today. His body is at Bloomfield's chapel awaiting funeral arrangements. Monday morning, when alone in a room, seated in an invalid's roller chair. Ferguson wheeled himself to a dresser, took out his revolver and fii»-d a bullet through his head. He had been despondent because of two years of confinement by a broken back. He was injured by a fall from a car when on duty in the Atlanta yards. Four children, the oldest thirteen, the youngest two years old. and a widow survive him. The Atlanta lodge of Ma sons No. 59 is arranging for his burial. He also was a member of the B. of R. T. YOUNG "BOB” TAFT’S CUB IS RESCUED BY OLD BEAR BENTON, MONT.. Aug. 15.—What to do with the cub bear presented to Rob ert Taft, son of the president, by a Blackfoot chief on his arrival in Glacier National park, has been solved. An old bear, hearing the wails of the cub. made her way last night into the Taft camp on Red Eagle mountain and gnawed through the rope that tethered the cub to a tree. Then she retreated up the mountainside. Guides started in pursuit, but young Taft shouted: It's probably her cub, and there is no room in the white house anyway. Let her go.” The Trials of a Traveler. T am a traveling salesman." writes | E. E. Youngs. E. Berkshire. Vt„ "and was often troubled with constipation land indigestion till I began to use Dr. I King's New Life Pills, which I have found an excellent remedy.” For all stomach, liver or kidney troubles they ■ire unequaled. Only 25 cents at ail druggists. MISFIT PRESSING CLUB MAKES GREAT HIT AT THE.BONITA THEATER One of the funniest and most <>nter taining bills that has been presented at a popular priced theater in Atlanta sot many months is ' The Misfit Pressing Club" at the Bonita Theater, 32 Peach tree street. The King - Murray - Jones Musica Comedy Company is one of the bes l tha. has been seen here this season and “The Pretty Girl Chorus." com posed of Misses Dorothy Vernon. Viola King. Adella Anderson. Iva Genette, Joy Filmore. Corinne King and Midge West is well worth double the price of ad mission Continuous performance* every aft' ernoon and evenings accompanied by motion pictures. Children sc, adults in the speaker's right hand, got theirs, too! Last right was the first time that no ble hand—without whom the legislature would be a vast and howling wilderness, indeed:—ever was remembered by the end-uf-the-se«sion Santa Claus, and it' was accordingly appreciative and happy . Having been furnished with advance programs of what was to happen, the press gang was in blissful ignorance of the big show about to be pulled off when, at 11:42. George Brown started the flow of joy that eventually all but swamped the establishment. Not knowing what was in the wind, the prefcs gang had selected Angus Perkerson. of The Atlanta Journal, to make the re sponse to the speech of presentation. "Perk" readily—not to say greedily— grasped the opportunity to shine, but, un fortunately, when the limelight was switched in bis direction fye was deeply absorbed in a high brow magazine arti cle. and the speech of acceptance was never delivered Mr. Perkerson distributed typewritten copies of his speech-that-was-to-be-deliv ered-but-wasn’t to his colleagues of the press, and it was a crackerjack, if only "Perk" had not been asleep at the switch! According to Mr. Perkerson, if he had spoken, this is what he would have said in the get-away: , Gentlemen of the General Assembly: We. the representatives of the Fourth Estate—whatever that is—thank you most cordially for this manifestation of your high esteem and generous consideration. (Applause.) There have been some fine stories floating around this house now and then, which after having had them carefully explained to me by my fellow-mem bers of the press, I have cheerfully carried in the columns of my newspa per. (Applause.) I, we, ail hope to see you back next year I find the house of representatives a fine place for catching up on my magazine reading, and I like this assignment. (Great and prolonged applause.) Gen tlemen, we thank you for these tie holders, and I say blessed be the tie that binds. (Great, wild, long and tumultuous applause). It would have been a nifty little speech had not "Perk” become so absorbed in that article on the "Whfchness and the Whatness of the Whence” that he forgot to speak it! Still, in spite of all that, the custom of distributing legislative largess at the end of the session is a very pretty custom, and —long may it wave! READ THIS. The Texas Wonder cures kidney and bladder troubles, removing gravel, cures diabetes, weak and lame backs, rheuma tism. and all Irregularities of the kidneys and bladder in both men and women. Regulates Gladder troubles In children. If not sold by your druggist, will be sent by mall on receipt of 00. One small bottle is two months' treatment and sel dom fails to perfect a cure. Send for tas timonials from this and other states Dr. E. W Hall. 2926 Ollvo-st.. St. Louis'. Mo Sold bv oruggtsta. TO THE PUBLIC One of the greatest features in connection with the recently reorganized CARLTON SHOE CO. is the acquirement of the Agency for this city of ALFRED BENJAMIN & CO.’S “Correct Clothes tor Men Pursuant to that fact, the following letter is a complete authentication. The established reputation of the exceptionally high quality of these clothes makes this announcement one of particular interest to hundreds of At lanta’s best dressed men; whose appreciation, I feel sure, will continue, and whose patronage I respectfully bespeak. Very sincerely, I. LIPSTIXE. Hiintjamtn A Qin. LAFAYETTE ST.. NEW YORK. j u l y 29/12. 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