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4 LAD WANTED TO SEE TRAIN WRECK. SO HE THREW SWITCH OPEN AURORA. ILL.. Aug. 1' Lawrens Gilman, aged elev< n. had lived beside the Chicago an>. No: i A»—pr -a :rt».vi for nearly a year and did not .«»e <n accident He read about !'.»•! and v curinuF So he threw a switch. then *at in his mother’.* bed room window and watched a passenger train crush into a string of freight < < « Th<. * is the lad’s story it was told to the officials of the railroad today. The box confessed to the police after a vain effort on the part of the authori ties to discover the cause «»f the acci dent. in w hich a number of people were • haken and jolted And a fireman was 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 Co-operation of the Company with their agents, together with their unmatched policies, make agents’ contracts with Tbe Southern States Life profitable. The Southern Stales Life Insurance Co. ATLANTA, X\ 7 \ugKul J / g a. W. s. McLEOII, Supervisor of Agents W.LM.K L. MOORE. Sl ’ l(! " f ’■“WH 1 ' 1— -' ■■■■ ■" For the rest of this week we are going to sell our SI.OO FLASHLIGHT FOR 0Q CENTS See our Window KING HARDWARE CO. 53 Peachtree Street 4 J. MJligh Commny. | Clearing Men’s Summer Underwear At % Off All cool Slimmer Underwear, in the highest grades, of which we show quite the largest collection in the city, has now been marked down I -4 off regular prices, including: Genuine Scriven Inion Suits g / Genuine “ T’< »r< » kni t " I'niitfi Suits / The famous B. V. It. Union Suits / The Best Nainsook Garments / The Best Balbriggan Garments Off Men’s $1.50 Soft Negligee Shirts X beautiful line of patterns in soft, imported Madras -<| Z\ ZA Shirts, made by one of t.he highest class Shirt makers I 111 I in the country; Shirt < 1 hat ti t right and are correctly tt J * made. Our regular sl.''(> values, tomorrow choice.... VETERANS MEET ON SPOT WHERE THEY WENT TO WAR I ROME. GA Aug. 15. On the same spot where they gathered 52 years ago to fight for the Stars and Rars, the surviving member* of Company G. Tu ent y - second Infantry, met today for a feast and apeec hmaking There are 25 members of Company G left Ont* • f them is Policeman Jo seph Sharp of R une. He i s the chief spirit of the annua! reunions. The survivors of this old company meet • o'h ear at Silver Creek, on the spot where they organized. August 15. 1861. and talk of war limes and barbecue The <pot where CoinpatiV G was organized marked The chief addresses today were made bv Colonel \\ S M< Henry and Judge W. H Henry THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY. AUGUST 15. 1912. SMALL MODESTY ; IN TAFT GMS Hilles Says the President Will Carry 34 States—Concedes Wilson 10. T. R. None. t'HP'AGO. Aug 15. t'hatles D. Hille.* chairman of the Republican na tional committee, here to arrange for the opening of the campaign, has issued his first statement. He "claims" the e|e< tion 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. Hilles assert:- will go to Wi son. 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 la based on the belief that it will draw about evenly from the two old parties, not materially affecting the re sult. I MANY FIRMS INCREASE ATLANTA PHONE SERVICE lii preparation for 1 li<* big ! increase in fall trade, many Atlanta Imuses 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 I Spirit.” Atlanta Telephone and Telegraph Co. A. B. CONKLIN, lien. Mgr. SEARCHINGSIDELIGHTS ON GEORGIA POLITICS By JAMES B. NEVIN. For a time last right the atmosphere of th«* 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 < up Senator Roberts made a great presenta tion speech, too. It took Mr. Slaton off his feet, ana 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 he sat down the senate was thor oughly convinced that it loved <ld Jack Slaton to a fare-you-well. and that old Jack returned the beyond the shadow 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 sena’e had nothing whatever on the sen timental business in the house. Over there Hooper Alexander. Joe Hill Hall. George Brown, et al., 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 it silver bouillon set tha*'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 in the way of beauty and gems of purest ray serene. He wandered by the wayside looking for flowers that might there he 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 18-carat fine! .Mr. Holder's response was all it should have been. He declared, in the words of one of thp “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 w’hich he expected 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 tern, 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 veg. tite “young gentlemen of the press.' who sit away down from, ai INVALID WHO SHOT HIMSELF TO RID HIS WIFE OF CARE DIES McGhee bVrguson. former Southern railway conductor, who shot himself at h:s 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, whetl alone in a room, seated in an invalid's roller chair Eergnson wheeled himself to a dresser, took out his revolver and fired a bulJet 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. Hour 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.. Vug. 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 tn pursuit, but young Taft shouted. It's probable het cub. and there is n<> toom in the white house anyway, l.et her go." The Trials of a Traveler. •'I am a traveling salesman." writes E. E. Youngs E. Berkshire. \'t . "and was often troubled with constipation and indigestion till I began to use Dr. King's New Life Pills, which I have found an excellent remedy." V'or all 'stomach, liver or kidney troubles they i are unequaled. Only 25 cents at all | druggists MISFIT PRESSING CLUB MAKES GREAT HIT AT THE BONITA THEATER One of the funniest and most rnter taining bills that has been presented at a popular priced theatei in Atlanta for many months is "The Misfit Pressing < Tub" at the Bonita Theater, 32 Peach tree street. Toe King- Murray - Jones Musical Comedy Company is one of the bes' that has been seen here this season, and " The Pretty* Girl Chorus." com posed of Misses Dorothy Vernon. V ola King. Adella Anderson. Iva Genetti. Joy Eilmore. Corinne King and Midge West, is well worth double the price of ad mission Continuous performances every aft ernoon and evening- accompanied by motion pictures. Children sc, adults !•»<- • • • r j the speaker's right hand, got theirs, too! < Last night was the first time that no- ' ble band —without whom the legislature would be a vast and howling wilderness, indeed'.—ever was remembered by th® end-of-the-session Santa Claus. and it i was accordingly appreciative and happy. Having been furnished with advance I pr« gtams 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 rhe wind, the I press gang had selected Angus f’erkerson. of The Atlanta Journal, to make the re- . Sfx r.se io the speech of presentation. I Perk” readily- not to say greedily— grasped the opportunity to shine, but, un fortunately, when the limelight was switched in his direction he was deeply I absorbed in a high-brow magazine arti , cle, and Hie speech of acceptance was never delivered. Mr. f’erkerson 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 j “Perk” had not been asleep at the switch! According to Mr. F’erkerson. if he had spoken, this is w’hat he would have said in > the get-away : Gentlemen of the General Assembly: We. the representatives of the Fourth I 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 i around this house now and then, which after having had them carefully' explained to me by my fellow-mem , hers of the press, I have cheerfully carried in the columns of my newspa i per. (Applause.) I. we, all hope to i see you back next year. I find the house of representatives a fine place I 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 f that binds. (Great, wild, long and tumultuous applause). -• It would have been a nifty little speech I had not “Perk" become so absorbed in j that article on the “Whichness and the a Whatness of the Whence” that he forgot to speak it! ] i Still, in spite of all that, the custom of distributing legislative largess at the end of the session is a very pretty custom, j and long may it wave! f READ THIS. 3 1 The Texas Wonder cures kidney end ? Madder iroubles, removing gravel, cures diabetes, weak and lame backs, rheums -0 tlsm, and all Irregularities of the kidneys t and bladder In both men and women I Regulates o'.adder troubles in children If not sold by your druggist, will be 3 by mail on receipt of SI.OO. One small 1 bottle is two months' treatment and sel , dom falls to perfe"t a cure. Send for tea tlrronialr. from this and other states Dr E. W. Hall. 2926 Ollve-st.. St. l.ouis. Uo Sold bv oriiggtsta. r I _ 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, 1 feel sure, will continue, and whose patronage I respectfully bespeak. Verv sincerely, I. LIPSTINE. Alfrrii A Co. 436-438-440 LAFAYETTE ST, NEWYORK. j uly 29/12. .. The Carlton Shoe & Clothing Co. Atlanta, Ga, Dear Sira;- We are glad to advise you, that com- mencing with the Fall season, of 1912, that you will have exclusive sale of ALFRED BENJAMIN 4 CO*S CORRECT COLTHES FOR for Atlanta. 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Griffin’s Jental Rooms g Over BROWN & ALLEN'S O RUG STORE, 24'/ 2 WHITEHALL ST. $5 Sei of Teetli $5 | COMPLETED DAY ORDERED 22k Gold Crowns, S 3 Special Bridge Work, As g C All Dental Work Lowest Prices. R M PHONE 1708. Hours—B to 7. Lady Attendant. i Use Georgian Want Ads