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2 TAFT FOR TEST DF CANAL SILL Confers With Cabinet Over Free Tolls—May Send It to the Supreme Court. WASHINGTON. Aug !'• l’i<sident I Taft and his x abinet xr.-t< iday discuss- I cd the Panama canal bill, and the; question of a possible presidential v> to of the measure Ever) membet of Mr Taft’s official family who vs a- in town was present, and the discussion lasted for an hour after luncheon time, but no decision was reached The presi dent's inclination, it was said today, i to approve the bill, hut he is anxious to have provisions made for a legal test of the matter of free tolls for American ships The cabinet was un derstood to agree with him that there | Is basis for believing that the bill with the free tolls clause in it. is not in I conformity with the Hat - I’Huncefote ; treaty When the conference was over tin president was still of the opinion that the best wav to test the bills agree ment with the treaty was to have the United Stales supreme court pass upon ft. He will confer with senate and house leaders in the next few days, and will devote most of his own time to pondering over this one bill. Most of the Republican leaders in both houses, and probably some of the leading Dem ocrats will be called into consultation, and the bill will he gone over with care The president was told that it is probably too late now to amend the hill, and that any action he may take must be in the form of a veto, unless lie van get Republican and Democratic leaders to agree on a joint resolution to be passed later that would show that the United States had no Intention in passing tins measure of abrogating the existing treaty with Great Britain Such a resolution would permit foreign steamship companies to test the act's validity iint.h i the Hay-Pauneefote treaty in the United States courts. ALLEN. OF UPSON. STUMPS SIXTH DISTRICT FOR WISE TMOMASTiiN. GA.. Aug 19. Inter- j est in the congressional race for the Sixth district has taken on new life with the active fight being waged for Solicitor General Wise s candidacy b.v Representative W Y Allen, of Thom aston. Mr Allen addressed an audi ence of 200 voters at Yatesville Satur day afternoon when lie made a strong speech In Wise's interest. Mr Allen i addressed the vot'rs of <'raw ford conn- I ty this afternoon at Roberta and speaks tonight at Knoxville. Tomor row night he will speak at Atwater. Upson county. OLD PLOWSHARE FOUND IN THE HEART OF A TREE COLLINGDALE. PA . Aug 19—With the tree grown around and entirely covering it. perhaps many years ago. a steel plowshale nearly twenty inches long was found imbedded In the heart of an old tree which William Brunnl I and Daniel Scanni were cutting down | in fiont of theii home, no Jackson I avenue. Collingdab The tree, mote than nine feet in cir- ; cumference. had outgrown its useful-, ness and Seannl and Brunnl stalled to I cut it down, hut after getting about | half through their axes struck metal. The plowshare was upright and prob ably had been laid in a crotch of the t ee mane years ago and forgotten The tree Is probably 100 years old, WAYCROSS FOLK GOING TO JOY-RIDE IN STREET CARS WAYCROSS, GA Aug 19. Unless there are unforeseen delays, Waycross people can go joy riding in street cars the first week in September. The de layed contracts for crossings of vari ous tracks of the Xilantle Coast Line ami arrangements for electric power are settled propositions now and noth. Ing hut construction hinders the opera tion of ears This is neing rushed, and with good weather will be completed by ' September 1. WITHDRAWS FROM SECOND WILCOX COUNTY CONTEST ABBEVILLE. GA.. Aug 19. In a card made public through a local pa per, Sheriff 1. IL Glenn announces that he is not In the race for repr< sentative for Wilcox county He had paid the assessment and was considered a can didate until this announcement was made public. Thi - lea ves Dr * ’ D. I Mcßae, of Rpchel'e with nr opposi tion. Mr. Glenn was 1 :.u-w 's. i amlidate in the county primary spring for re-election to the office of s.ieriff, but withdrew before tile , riu i x came off FIRST SEA ISLAND BALE SOLD SAVANNAH. GA Ai, • Th. fits, bale of Georgia sea island . ..tt<m fol the season of 1912-12 lia« b. . n receive... and sold before the ml ta n • ■ of tlu , tun Ex. hang. The offering brought :; , cents a pound HARDWICK AT CRAWFORDVILLE CRAWFORDVILLE. GA Aug 19 | T. W. Hardwick, candidate fm ..an: . s to succeed himself from the T>nt o ' triet. spoke to a good size auui.ni- It j the > ourt house Saturday aft. muon. I The Atlanta Georgian—Premium Coupon This coupon Will be accepted at our Premium Paior 20 East A'abama at., as partial pa/ment for any of the beautiful premium goods displayed there. See Premilin Parlor Announcement on Another Page MUZZLE YOUR WIFE! Gopyrigbi. 1912, International News Service. ( few AS I WAS V J ( IT SA'YS HERE TBAT < is ' ABOUT To REMARK ' ihameO/ /AH WIVES Should IT TAKESVou A LONG . —" ;BE MU 12-LED: J \ TIME To QE.T FRESXoEt) J / V U H w Er s. i) on ' Tbußt SiTTiHq ON MIJ) sis That OH! /AY NEW W HAT J I HAVj J - HAT! You-' (^> —— rl X , '\\ \ V ~rWHY‘ F/OW DAPE YOU 1 SHE CAN BARK BUT ' ' SiT ON /AY NEW HAT/ ) SHE CANT BITE y r r?l M : X \ nm \ j .j W . t A Mb- (A judge says some wives should be muzzled. —News Item.) "BE SURE OF YOUR MAN IN PICKING PRESIDENT,” SAYS ALFRED H. LEW IS By ALFRED HENRY LEWIS. NE\\ Y(*RK, Aug. ll*. -There is work on hand. The i ountry s president pick ing this year is to be no child's play— no trivial matter. Comiitions are what writers on so,rial order and economics •a I acute The next president can do much toward ameliorating them or much toward making them worse. Ihe vulgar arrogance of money is one of the great causes of commercial and political disturbance as often as otherwise. 1 nhappiness is commonly the bitter fruit of comparisons; and discontent comes as the result of look ing at the other fellow from the window and then taking a survey of one's self in the glass. Some notion of what I'm driving at can be gathered from any morning’s perusal of the daily papers. The other day it was published that Mr Rocke feller's income is J 52.000.000 a year. This is more than the aggregate Income of all the sovereigns of Europe, includ ing King George These Rockefeller riches grew out of an investment of nothing in 45 years. How Rebate— proteetion." Mr. Rockefeller began as a rehater, to become later an Infant In dustry Also, as an infant Industry, be was careful not to grow up. Do you realize what J52.000.00n means? Were it all in gold It would, upon the principle of a ton to a team, all for 104 spans of horses to take Mr Rocket'er. r bls x early Income, and make a close- 'eked procession nearly a mile long. The average oil wage to (lie laborei is under an annual SSOO No Reason For Inequality. There s no reason, moral, physical, -ocia . poliii, al. commercial, why this x a aning itiequality should exist. It's Un the fa., of natural law. and. there ■ t..r. . in the face of justice. The oil .xork.n with his ess than 1500 a year. ,>ii'..xs tiu-e things, feels these things Uhl they help him to a hatred of our rsi r aliens, utge hail into Soxlaltsm. Wes. I business manager of the na tion 1 would issue a bulletin to voters ; giving the follow ing directions Don’t ook at tag inform, look at tin MAN. j l'i.r. after all. in politics the MAN is big ISSU.- ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY, AUGTST 19. 1912. How often must you be reminded that in 1892 you elected a president on a tariff platform who called an extra session on finance': how often that tn 1896 you elected a president on a finance platform who called an extra session on tariff? So much for the platform; so much for the overshad owing importance of the MAN. Stick to the MAN. Look him over with care. There are men whom power spoils and who can not be made great with out being made dangerous. Mr. Taft, of the latter, is an eminent example. Would Mr. Wilson turn out to be an other? Mr. Roosevelt's seven White House years pointed convincing!!y to him as one whom power doesn’t de generate. Fully to fit a White House one should have not alone the strength to main tain a war, but the wisdom to con clude a peace The more w hen you re member that the too-frequept mark of the philosopher is that in trying to light a candle he puts out a lamp. Also books, alcoves, education, erudition and the right to affix A M or LL.D, or Ph.D. or all three to ones name promise nothing of importance on the firing line of affairs He who has them will be lucky if they don't get in his way. Another Sort to Avoid. There is another sort to avoid, the sort that although they speak loud, think low and hardly act at all. These you may easily know. They talk dn primer, think in nonpareil, act in agate Such folk suffer not only soul weak ness, but a shortness of political sight They are the shrinkers, trimmers, haul ers of horns In this, too, they play the fool Men should remember that these declarations of principles which brought them the election ate in all chance the most likely If concreted into action to bling them immortality. Not to know this as a matter of instinct argues some meagerness of virile fibei The natural fighter the born victory winner, in short, the Roosevelt carries the knowledge of It from birth in the brain that Iles back of his ears. <if no strong hates no strong loves, and above and bey ond all else no strong gratitudes, vou would imperil your own ■ safety should you think of <>nr of them , for your White House Neither does ' it follow that because a men is no [ Damocles tn betray he « a Damon to be [ ttue Indeed the common run of souls '' <r>- neither false nor faithful. The master-thicat of the hunt is the 1 gnoram.t of the rich uui next pres- — i ident must be strong enough to check if he doesn't illuminate it. Who will best serve—Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Taft or Mr. Wilson? In answering the ques tion. past performances should count. Nn American like's to take a chance when it comes to his White House. As to Mr. Taft and Mr. Roosevelt, all is plain sailing—the wind Is aft. the open i ocean dead ahead. His seven presi dential years proved the courageous While House worth of Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Taft. In his presidential three years plus has shown conclusively his timid. White House worthlessness. Mr. Wilson? He is wholly without al White House past, which mikes his case more difficult. Presidentially con sidered. he's a pig in a poke. 88 COURSES IN DINNER: TONG MEN CELEBRATE , .NEW YORK. Aug. 19.—Three hun , died members of the Ong Leon Tong society from all parts of the United States met at their headquarters in Mott street to celebrate at a dineni the five thousandth birthday of their god, Kon Quon. The dinner was in two sections, consisting of 88 courses. A few days aso an attempt was made to blow up the god with dynamite, but the idol was not damaged, although ’ ihe building was. A reward of $1,500 has been offered for information as to the perpetrator of the deed. THEATERS CUT OUT MUSIC: FOUR CHICAGO HOUSES ACT I'Hli'AGil. Aug. 10 Four downtown theaters have decided to do away with i orchestras. Under the rules of the I Chicago Federation of Musicians, the , | four houses, being in the first class. I must employ a minimum of eleven mu sicians in their orchestras ot none. Tin theaters chose the latter alternative. The musicians say they intend to en , list the support of the other trade- con . nected with the recently organized amusement trades council, including the billpostirs. stage employees and scenic painters. .... - —• Are Ever At War. There are two things everlastingly at war. joy and piles Rut Bucklen's Ar ' mica Salve will banish piles tn any form, j ■ J it soon subdues the itching, irritation. ; inflammation or "wr'ang It gives com. , Ifort, invites joy. Greatest healer of . burns, bolls ulcers cuts bruises, ecze- i ma. si aids, pimples skin eruptions. jUlily 25 cis at all druggists. ••• I LIGHTNING KILLS TWO ST MON MACON. GA.. Aug. 19. —A bolt of lightning from a blue sky yesterday Killed two persons, seriously injured two and caused another to suffer from hysteria for some time afterward. The tragedy occurred as Mr. and Mrs, N A. Cranford, of Cordele, were crossing Tindall's field near Mercer university, with two grandchildren, Flora and Virginia Sullivan. Mrs. Cranford and little five-yeai -old Flora were instantly killed, though not a bruise was afterward apparent on their bodies. Mr. Crantoid and Virginia Sul livan were shocked and bruised. They i e now at a hospital in a critical con dition. Mrs. E. B. Campbell witnessed th“ occurrence while standing in the door way of her home about 50 yards dis tant and the spectacle threw her into The homes of Arthur Codington, L. E. G.eisling and C. W. Jones, in differ ent parts of the city, were also struck by lightning during the electric storm which had Macon in its grip for two hours. Flora and Virginia Sullivan, both orphan children, have lived with their giandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Cranford, in Cordele, and came with them last Friday to visit in Macon. Mrs. Cranford is survived by her husband, four sons, four daughters and one sister. Her sons are L. F. Cran ford and W. G. Cianford, of Macon; S. L. <Tanford, of Cordele, and Henry t'ranfoid, of Dexter. Laurens county. Her daughters are Mrs. Fannie Sim mons, of Macon; Mrs. Jennie Bustin, Mrs. W. S. Jones and Mrs. Beadie Cro zier, of Cordele. Policeman John Green, of Macon, is a nephew of Mrs. Cranford and Mrs. Mary Green, of Fort Valley, is her only sister. Official Ballot WHITE DEMOCRATIC STATE PRI MARY. AUGUST 21, 1912. (Erase, names of all candidates for whom you do not desire to vote.) For Governor. ( Vote for one.) HOOPER ALEXANDER. JOSEPH H. HALL. ,l< >HN M. SLATON. For United States Senator. (Vote for one.) AI'GVSTUS O. BACON, H. H. PERRY. For Secretary of State. PHILIP COOK. For Comptroller General. WILLIAM A. WRIGHT. For Attorney General. (Vote for one.) THOMAS S. FELDER. W. R. JONES. For State Treasurer. W. J. SPEER. For State School Superintendent. (Vote for one.) E. H BECK. M. L. BRITTAIN. For Pension Commissioner. ( Vote for one., W. H LANIER. JOHN W. LINDSEY. For Prison Commissioner. ( Vote for one.) A. N. GROVENSTEIN. S. W JOHNSON T. E. PATTERSON. F°r Commissioner of Agriculture. (Vote for one.) A. O. BLALOCK. J. J. BROWN. J. D. PRICE. For Commissioner of Commerce and Labor, H. M. STANLEY. For Associate Justice of Supreme Court for Full Terms. Beginning Jan. 1, 1913. (Vote for two.) SAMI'EL C. ATKINSON. JOSEPH HENRY LI'MPKIN. For Associate Justice of Supreme Court for Unexpired Term of Justice Hor ace M. Holden. Ending Jan. 1. 1915. HIRAM WARNER HILL. For Judge Court of Appeals. Full Term. I'IIN.IAMIN H. HILL- For Judge Court of Appeals. Unexpired Term of Judge Arthur PowelL (Vote for one,.) NASH R. BROYLES. J. R. POTTLE. For Railroad Commissioner. (For the office now held b.v Joseph F. Gray.) (Vote for one.) JOSEPH F. GRAY. JOHN H. JAMES JOHN H. M'GEHF.E CHARLES J. SHIPP. For Railroad Commissioner. ( For "fti e now held by George Hillyer.) (Vote for one.) W TROX BANKSTON. GEORGE HILLYER. S G. M'LENDON. For Railroad Commissioner. (I’ntxpired term of H. W Hill, now held by Paul B. Trammell.) (Vote fol- one.) .1. .1 FLYNT. PAI’L B. TRAMMELL. For Representative in the 63d Congress from the Fifth District of Georgia. WILLIAM SCHLEY HOWARD For Judge of the Superior Court of the Atlanta Circuit. (Vote for one.) JOHN T PENDLETON. ALEX \\ STEPHENS. For Solicitor General Atlanta Circuit. (Vote for one.) MADISON BELL. HIGH M DORSEY (In counties where two or more rep resentative- in the Legislature ar< to he nominated, the voter must vote for the full number to which such county i.,- entitled.) For Representatives. (Vote forth ee.> ROBERT P RLAi'KBI’RN RALPH " COCHRAN WALTER M EI.RF.ATH .!■ -HN V. SMITH I M ILLIAM M SMITH. iSEARCHING SIDELIGHTS ON GEORGIA POLITICS By JAMES B. NEVIN. One of the shrewdest political ob servers in northwest Georgia, a man who has served several terms as a rep resentative of one of the larger counties of that section, but who. because he is personally for Wilson and does not wish to be misunderstood, refuses to permit his name used, gave it as his opi Mon today that Theodore Roosevelt surely wih carry the Seventh congres sional district over both Taft and Wil son in the November presidential elec tion. Discussing the matter today, he said; "I have recently had occasion to travel over a large part of. the Sev enth district, considerably more than half of it. and I was astonished to find the sentiment running so powerfully in the direction<>f the former president. Farmer after farmer, in reply to di rect inquiry, stated that he expected to vote for Colonel Roosevelt. Numbers of them said they would vote for Wil son. Very few expressed an intention to vote for Taft. "Attention constantly is called to the fact in the Seventh district that it went for Taft as against Bryan in the last election, but the votes that went for Taft then went for him entirely on Roosevelt's account. "Mr. Roosevelt’s mother lived in the Seventh district when she was a young woman and was married there. That, while pleasantly recaVed in some in stances, is not, I think, the real rtason why the Seventh district seemingly' In clines to the former president now. The people of that vicinity seem impressed with the idea that of nil 'the candidates Roosevelt is the most human and stands most aggressively' for human rights. Neither Wilson nor Taft ap pears to have the ‘punch’ with the peo ple of the Seventh that Roosevelt has. “I do not say these things because I am glad that they are so, for I am not. I am against Colonel Roosevelt and would not vote for him in any circum- I stances. I regard him as a dangerous man in the place to which he aspires And I am going to vote for Wilson. "I merely say what I do because, from close and personal observation. I be lieve it is the solemn 'truth. If Roose velt comes to Georgia and makes two or three speeches, and the remainder of the state is in the receptive mood the Seventh unquestionably is. the for. mer president will carry the state— mark the prediction!" ,Not a few citizens will take this man's statement with generous grains of salt, and think that, at least, he is mistaken. The only two guaranteed facts are that the district unquestionably did go for Taft as against Bryan last time, and that the person quoted is an ob server of great shrewdness and much common sense and political experience. There may be some differences of opinion as to w hether the president of the senate or the messenger thereof should appoint tbe senate pages—and there are some more or less violent dif ferences—but there is very little dif ference of opinion as to whether the provision for the appointment of pages should be attached to a general appro priation bill. The almost unanimous opinion is that it should not. It is not germane to a general ap propriation bill—nor to a special ap propriation bill, either, for that matter -and il should not be saddled upon the same, where the entire bill may be endangered by it. If it be necessary to enact each year how pages shall be ap pointed. the bill or resolution provid ing for the appointment ought, in de cency and common sense, to stand by itself. That frees the proposition from other questions, and permits a settle ment on the merits of the case. The house was "squabbling" with the ' senate in its dying hours over the ap pointment of pages, when it should have been giving its attention to much more serious matters —notably the gen eral banking bill, which went to its : death through sheer inattention. True, the house was contending for (COMMUNICATED.) BACON IS FOR “INTERESTS,” I STATES THOMSON PROGRESS IN A VIGOROUS EDITORIAL The following interesting editorial on the race for United States Sena tor is taken from The Thomson Progress: WILL BACON BE RENOMINATED? Will Senator Bacon be renominated at the coming primary as a Demo cratic candidate foi United States Senator from Georgia? We are frank to say that it seems that he will. Just how he has managed tp turn the trick year after- year we have been, and are still, unable to answer. But the everlasting fact is that throughout the r ecent turbulent years in Georgia politics he has successfully weathered the storm. Bear in mind that at all times he has stood in with the "gr eat interests" that have so vigorously fought, and yet not ’a time* has popular sentiment turned against him. Bear in mind that in al! these years the "great inter ests" of the country have never been dissatisfied with him. Bear in mind that when the transcontinental railway fought the Panama eanal and . when the entire South was giving that measure its strong support, our sen ator was found lined up with these transcontinental railways making speech after speech against the Panama eanal. which it is hoped will be the great , well-spring of Southern prosperity in a few years. Bear in mind that when i an effort was made to throttle the great interstate railways in the issuing of bonds and stocks, in other words, in watering their capitalization and thereby putting a mortgage on coming generations, that our senator spoke against and voted against this measure. Bear in mind that when Taffs little Attorney General Wickersham prosecuted Brown. Hayne and others for attempting to put up the price of cotton and thereby tuin millions of dollars into the pockets of Southern peo ple. appeals were made from Thomson to Senator Bacon to intervene tn their behalf, and the reply was in substance that it was a matter in which > he had no concern Later Senator Smith, of South Carolina and other Southern representatives made it too hot for Wickersham and his croud and the prosecutmn came to naught, but remember that It was a matt er in which the Geoigia Senator had no concern It may he that the peopje win go on and nominate him again It ma" be that Mt Perrv. of Hall wtr not • net eeri ... >, K ma , Urt ln obtaining the nomination, and yet it wl . forever be a mystery to The Progress ho . one old roal , .-an pull the wool ove the eyes of thousands and thousands of Georgia farm ers. Geogia business men and Georgia voters in general. a principle that rvas sound and right eous, but the principle ought not to have been made possible of discus sion in the way it was. The fault was in attaching the pags amendment to the appropriation bill under consideration. It has been suggested, and the sug gestion has met with much favor, that hereafter pages and other employees should be appointed by a committee on legislative attaches—one for each house. But. regardless of whether that is done, there Should be no repetition of the page "squabble” in the future. The weather is very hot. Many people have noticed that, of course,, of late, and particularly after so unusual and so long a spell of de lightfully cool yveather. Perhaps that is the reason why some candidates run in their campaigning of late rampant to perfervid oratory and grandiloquent parts of speech. Mayhap the recent extreme humidity characterizing meteorological condi tions —as the esteemed weather; sharp puts it—has gone to the heads of some aspirants for office, for certainly some of them are saying things, ever “see ing things.” Unquestionably, if Georgians are to believe some of the grand, gloomy and peculiar things they hear, the "gob berlins" will "git us, if we don’t watch out." In testimony whereof, witness this exhibit: I call on God to witness the cov enant I make this day with the people of Georgia: Mercenary crime shall jiot stand unchallenged in the market place. The pestilence shall not walk at noonday unrebuked. The cove nant with death shall be disan nulled and the agreement with hell shall not stand. The rich and pow erful shall no longer set up their respectable crime as a pattern for the vicious and the ignorant. Can you guess, gentle reader, who ! said that? Only half a guess will be allowed each would-be guesser! ' Copies this simultaneously anxious and ecstatic inquiry to the Sidelights ! department: 1 am delighted that the legisla ture made Jess Perry a colonel, but won't he look funny in a blue uni form, with his acutely ted hair? ADMIRER (OF PERRY'S). Atlanta. Aug. 17, 1912. Certainly the colonel will not look '■ funny in a blue uniform. He would not ’ and could not look funny in any sort • of uniform. It is not a question of the uniform 1 becoming the colonel, but of the colonel • becoming the uniform—and the colonel under discussion becomes any uniform, t red hair and all! f Besides, is the colonel’s hair "acute- E ly" red? It is positively, categorically, 1 and honestly—even defiantly—so. per- ■ haps. but. "acutely?” Does this fair ■ correspondent (for. of course, it is a ' fair one. and. mayhap, "most divinely’ s tall." as Tennyson loved to sing about) ■ mean to suggest that Colonel Perry may be the guy who’put the "cute" in "acutely?" If so. Sidelights will forever and hereafter hold his peace—otherwise, "Admirer" need fear not at all for ' Colonel Perry . In his colonel's regalia, he is sure to ’ look both perfectly lovely and grand! Flying Men Fall victims to stomach, liver and kidney ’ troubles just like other people, with i like results in loss of appetite, back . ache, nervousness, headache, and tired, listless, run down feeling. But there's s no need to feel like that, as T. D. Pee bles. Henry. Tenn., proved. "Six bot ' ties of Electric Bitters.” he writes, "did 1 more to Rive me new strength and good i appetite than all other stomach reme dies I used." So they help everybody. ( It's folly to suffer when this great remedy will help you from the first dose. Try it. Only 50 cents at all ■ druggists. •••