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4 LAD WANTED TO SEE TRAIN WRECK. SO HE THREW SWITCH OPEN AURORA. ILL. Aug. ILawren'* Gilman, aged • ievi n had red hr "ide th’ for nearlx a year and not - ■ n accident. He read about t ■ n ait ! was curious. So be threw a switch : on sat in his mother's lied room w indow and watched a passcngei train < rash into a siting of freight i • Thi' is the lad's story ,i~ it was told to the officials of the railroad today. The box confessed tn the polb < after a vain effort on the put of the authori ties to discover the cause of the acci dent. in which a number of pienpie wore Shaken 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 Asentn wanted for unfilled territory Local Agents wanted tn all territories 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 Lite Insurance Co. ATLANTA, GA. *• s - McLEO|L Sll P cr ' lsor nf Afcnls WLmck mookc for Slalc " f •“ffi’ 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 nXMJIIGH COMPANY, Clearing Men’s Summer Underwear At U 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 I -4 off regular prices, including: Genuine Striven l iii<»n Suits | / Genuine “ Poiosknit" Union Suits / The famous B. V. T). I’nio ts / The Best Nainsook Garments / The Best Balbriggan Garni'nts Men’s $1.50 Soft Negligee Shirts A beautiful lin< of patterns in soft, imported Madias zfT> Shirts, made h; ighest class Shirt makers Jib 111 I in the eountrv; Shirts that fi t right and are correeth tt » r; 1 ~ VETERANS MEET ON SPOT WHERE THEY WENT TO WAR RiIMF: GA Aug 15. —On the same spot where they gnthered 52 years ago to tight for the Stare und Bar", the surviving members of Company G. I'w enty-«econd infantry, met today foi a feast and speechmaking There a e L’’ members of Company G left <>m i.f them is Policeman Jo seph Siiaip. of Rome. Hi- is the chief spirit of the annual reunions The survivors of this old company meet etch .'. ear at Sliver Creek, on t tie spot where they organized. August 15. 1861 and talk of war times and eat barbecue The "put whe a Company G was organized is marked The chief addresses todax xuere made bx Colonel W S McHenrx and Judge W. H. H. nr.' THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS- THURSDAY. AUGUST 15. 1912. SMALL MODESTY IN TAFT CLAIMS — 1 * I Hilles Says the President Will Carry 34 States—Concedes Wilson 10. T. R. None. CHICAGO. Aug. 15. -Chai les I>. I Hilles, chairman of the Republican na- I tional committee, here to arrange for I the opening of the campaign, has issued : his first statement. He ’claims" the election of William Howard Taft by a cote 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 Wilson Thirty-four are doubtful. In his esti mate, the Progressive party Is blandly disregarded. v 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 haxe 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 txvo old parties, not materially affecting the re. suit. MANY FIRMS INCREASE ATLANTA PHONE SERVICE I ii preparation for t he big | increase in fall trade, many Atlanta houses are now or dering more trunk lines. The truly phenomenal ' o-rowth 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 Phom* service is typical of the ’‘Atlanta Spirit.” Atlanta Telephone and Telegraph Co. A. B. CONKLIN, Gen. Mgr. SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS ON GEORGIA POLITICS By JAMES B. NEVIN. i For a time last night the atmosphere of : reeked with sentiment 1 In the senate, along about midnight. Senator Roberta, on behalf of the entire ’ membership, presented President Slaton i with a beautiful loving cup. , Senator Roberts made a great presenta ificn speech, too. It took Mr Slaton off his feet, and he experienced considerable 1 difficulty, despite the traditional senato- I rial dignity theoretically attaching to him, • in gening his response of thanks and ap ; predation out of his system. Finally he did get it out. however, and when he sat down the senate was thor oughly epnvinced that it loved <Jd Jack Slaton to a fare-you-well, and that old -lack returned the sentiment 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 <>f preliminary legislating to witness But the sentimental business in rhe senate 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 Broun presented, on behalf of the house, a lovely—that’s what Mrs Holder called it -silver bouillon set that’s also what Mrs Holder called it to j 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 tn the dark, unfathomed caves of the ocean to ‘'ee what was doing there in the wav 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 <>f the “latest and most popular songs of the day," that all he wanted was love, sweet love! And lie said he felt satisfied that he had it great gobs and festoons of it—all wrapped up in the bouillon thing, the which 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 ail so delightful and generous, and so forth and so on. And then Carl Vinson, the speaker pro tern, got his. and John T. Bolfeuillet and Matchless McClatchey and Bismarck Moore got theirs, and “Rob" Hardeman, the chairman of the pestiferous commit tee <>n 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 lo his family, died today. His body is at Bloomfield’s chapel awaiting funeral arrangements Monday morning, when alone in a I room, seated in an invalid’s roller chair. Ferguson wheeled himself to a dresser, took out his revolver and fired a bullet through his head. He had been despondent because of two yea’s 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 R. of R. T. i YOUNG "BOB’' TAFTS CUB IS RESCUED BY OLD BEAR BUNTON. M"NT. \ug. 15. What to do with the eub bear presented to Rob ert Taft, son of the president, by a Blackfoot chief on his arrival in Glacier National park, has bean 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. i "I am a traveling salesman." writes E. .E. Youngs. E. Betkshire, Vt.. "and was often troubled with constipation land indigestion til! I began to use Dr. I King’s New Life Pills, which I have > ln d an excellent remedy.” Foi all stomach, liver or kidney troubles they are uneuualed. Only 2;> cents at all druggists •“ MISFIT PRESSING CLUB MAKES GREAT HIT AT THE BONITA THEATER On, of the funniest and most >ntei tainlng bills that ha- been presented at a popular priced theutei in Atlanta for many months is "The Misfit Pressing Club" at the Bonita Theater. 32 Peach tree street. The King - Murray - Jones Musical Comedy Company is one of the best tha, has been seen here this season, land rhe Prettj Girl Chorus," cont- I posed of Misses Dorothy Vernon. Viola ' King Adella Anderson. Iva Genetc . Joy Filmore. Corinne King and Midge Wist, is well worth double the price of ad m I ssicn Continuous performances every iff ernoon and evenings accompanied b' motion pictures. Children 5< . adults !"• • • • f 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 the end-of-the-sesslon Santa Claus, and it i was accordingly appreciative and happy. Having been furnished with advance pr< grams of what was to happen, the f press gang was in blissful ignorance of P the hig show about to be pulled uff 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 I press gang had selected Angus Perkerson, of The Atlanta Journal, to make the re < spense to the speech of presentation. Perk” readily not to say greedily— c grasped the opportunity to shine, but, un fortunately. when the limelight was ; switched in his direction he was deeply I I absorbed in a high-brow magazine arti- | t de. and the speech of acceptance w-a* 1 never delivered. Mr. Perkerson distributed typewritten , . copies of his speech-that-was to-be-deliv- ; ered-but-wasn't to his colleagues of the I- press, and it was a crackerjack, if only . , “Perk" had not been asleep at the switch’ I 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. tlie representatives of the Fourth I Estate—whatever that is—thank you most cordially for this manifestation a of your high esteem and generous j c< nsideratlon. 'Applause! There I have been some fine stories floating f around this house now amt then. xx hi< h after having had them carefully I explained to me by my fellow-mem- , j hers of the press. I have cheerfully carried in the columns of my newspa- [ per. t Applause. I 1. we. all hope to , see you back next year. I find the house of representatives a fine place I for catching up on my magazine , trading and 1 like this assignment. > (Great and prolonged applause.) Gen- ■ tiemen, xve thank you for these tie- i 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 < l had not "Perk" become so absorbed in I that article on the "Whichness and the , Whatness of the Whence" that he forgot I to speak It! i 1 I i Still, in spite of all that, the custom of I • distributing legislative largess at the end of the session is a very pretty custom, t and—long may it wave! f . READ THIS. The Texas Wonder cures kidney and Madder troubles, removing grave!, cures diabetes, weak and lame backs, rheuma tism. and ail 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 mail on receipt of SI.OO. One Smail bottle is two months' treatment and sel dom fails to perfect a cure. Send forte» tlrroniai;; from this and other states. Dr E. W. Hall. 292 S Olive-st.. St. Louis. Ma gold bx or.legists. 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 for Men’’ Pursuant to that fact, the following letter is a complete authentication. The established reputation of the exceptionally high quality of those 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 1 respectfully bespeak. Very sincerelv, I. LIPSTINE. Alfrrii3srnjamu: & Cn. 436-430-440 LAFAYETTE ST, NEW YORK. July 29/12. The Carlton Shoe 4 Clothing Co. Atlanta, Ga. Pear Sira:- are glad to advise you, that com- mencing with the Fall season, of 1912, that you will have exclusive sale of ALFRED BENJAMIK 9t CO*S CORRECT COLTHES FOR MEU; for Atlanta. We feel sure that the trade of your city will he glad that you are to represent us, and in con- clusion beg to assure you of our ablest co-operatioq in every way. In the mean time we beg to remain. Yours very truly, fFSWIIIA pguK | For Infants snd Children. 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