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A Diamond
= HE value to the buyer rests not upon what
Hr a thing costs, but upon what it is worth.
* No specific rule can be made for the
—~ buyer's guidance in the purchase of Pre
cious Stone Jewelry.
The least shade of color, touch of imperfec
tion or lack of proportion influences the value so
greatly that only an expert can fix the value.
The fundamental feature of the Harry L. Dix,
Inc., business, as We have outlined it, and which
we steadfastly maintain, is this—
That a man need not be able to k noW a
good piece of goods from a poor one, or a genu
ine stone from an imitation, that he shall be of
fered choice only from the best at a plainly
marked price of real value.
That he shall have the unreserved war
ranty of the Dix Corporation with any purchase
he may make, that his decision shall be made
easy by confining it, if the purchaser so desires,
to style and design, matters of taste not requiring
technical k n °wledge.
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11 BAKST'S HUHDAT AHUSIUUAIV, ATLANTA, OA., BUTTOAT, DnOBBUHBK 1*, ISTHJ.
nr ifter
Pretty Mrs. Walker Found She
Despised Husband—Refused
Him Kisses,
M iller dismukes,
successful N a 8 h v i lie
business man, who will open
a hat store on Peachtree St.
AUGUSTA REAL
ESTATE PRICES
Girl Says Gallery
Keeper Shot Himself
She Had Let Go of Gun and He Had
It When It Discharged, Says
Miss Hause.
NOW SHE’S IN $25,000 SUIT
Action Also Is Against Woman’s 1
Family—Brother Sent Her to
Pittsburg “Retreat.”
RICHMOND, VA., Dec. 13.—When
Mrs. T. Grant Walker, central figure
in the Walker-Ratcliffe $25,000 alien
ation «uit, which began in the law
and equity court here several days
•ro, realized the day after her wed
ding last April, as she claims, that
•he no longer loved her husband, a
prominent young business man of
Richmond and plaintiff in the action,
•he asked her brother, Frank Rat-
eliffe, a traveling salesman, to place
her in a sanitarium in Atlanta or
New Orleans.
She preferred these places, she tes-
!ined, because she was dearly attach
ed to her brother and would thus be
in a position to see him frequently.
Her marriage, which was a surprise
affair, had completely upset her
nerves, she said. Consequently she
wished treatment in a sanitarium.
*1 aken to Pittsburg Instead.
Her brother, however, decided to
take her to Pittsburg, to make her
home with friends of his in that city.
She left for Pittsburg two days aft
er the wedding and has since remain
ed there, despite the efforts of her
husband to induce her to return to
him.
Mrs. Walker, who was formerly
Miss Bettie Ratcliffe, is 22 and very
pretty. After she and Walker were
married by Dr. J. Calvin Stewart, a
Presbyterian minister, on the morn
ing of April 25, the two started North
on their honeymoon, but were called
back before they had proceeded twen
ty miles by a telegram from John
Ratcliffe, another brother of the
bride, saying that her mother^had
been made desperately 111 by news
of the wedding and that she had bet
ter return home immediately.
It developed that Mrs. Ratcliffe had
fallen in a swoon after her daughter
broke news of the marriage to her
over the phone, and for a whole it
was feared that she would die, so
great was the shock, it was claimed.
Cross-examined by Louis Wenden-
burg. the plaintiff’s counsel, who
achieved fame as the prosecutor in
the Beattie murder case, Mrs. Walker
declared that she realized several
hours after returning to the city
from her brief honeymoon that she
had made a terrible mistake.
Kissed During Engagement.
She no longer loved her husband
and she told him so, she said, when
he attempted to kiss her the day fol
lowing the wedding. She admitted,
however, that he had frequently kiss
ed her dtiring their engagement, and
those occasions she did not object.
She made the distinction, though,
that “Mr. Walker kissed her.” She
did not kiss him, she insisted. She
was unable to explain* why such a
revulsion of feeling came over her
•o soon after the wedding.
The night of the wedding, she said,
her brother Frank told her that she
must choose between Walker and her
family. There could be no halfway
business. Frank did not deny making
this statement when he went on the
stand.
Miller Dismukes to
Open Hat Store Here
Nashville Man and Associates At
tracted by Belief in Prosperity
of Atlanta.
A new 'retail store will open its
door Monday morning on Peachtree
street. It is a nobby little shop In
every respect, offering a full linp> of
high-clas9 “hats for men.”
Miller Dismukes & Co. is the name
and Mr. Dismukes claims the distinc
tion of presenting to Atlanta its first
high-class men’s exclusive hat store.
Mr. Dismukes halls from Nashville,
where for many years he. has suc
cessfully operated a similar store.
With his experience in the hat busi
ness, together with his strong belief
In the prosperity of Atlanta and the
demands of the men In this section
for an establishment of this charac
ter, the Miller Dismukes company is
expected to be a permanent and faat-
gTowing factor in the retail business
of Peachtree street,
GIRL, 15. WEDS MAN, 30.
VANCOUVER, WASH., Dec. 13.—
Though but 15, Miss A. Laura Allen,
daughter of M. S. Allen, of Amboy,
Wash., to-day was married to Walter
J. Duddles, 30 years old.
Two Important Deals Just Closed.
Work Starts Now on Seven
teen-Story Skyscraper.
AUGUSTA, Dec. 18.— 1 Two Broad
street real estate deals were closed
during the rast few days and H. C.
Boardman, owner of the People’s Oil
Company, was the purchaser In each
instance.
The property now occupied by the
Alexander Seed Company at Nos. 909-
911 Broad street, was bought by Mr.
Boardman from Bertram Maxwell for
$20,000. It fronts 30 feet 6 irfches
on Broad street, extending back to
Jones street. Last February Mr.
Maxwell purchased the property for
$15,200.
Mr. Boardman has also purchased
the property at No. .837 Broad street,
now occupied by the Olympia Cafe,
from Charles Kempures, a Greek, \v ho
purchased it several years ago at a
much lower figure. The purchase
price, as given out ov Mr. Boardman.
is $21,000. The property fronts 22
feet 6 Inches on Broad street and ex
tends back 268 feet to an alley.
Confidence in Augusta.
“I have the utmost confidence j ;
Augusta real estate values,” said V
Boardman yesterday in discussing It
most recent acquisitions, “/End L be
lieve that the properties I have ac
quired will enhance tremendously
during the next few years. The erec
tion of the Empire Life’s seventeen-
story office building, the building of
the ten-story Chronicle Building and
also other improvements will cause
Augusta to make tremendous strides.
I consider Broad street property ex
tremely cheap now as compared with
what It will be in the course of a
few years. This city is just entering
into an era of prosperity which has
never before been equaled.”
.New Postoffice Planned.
The contract for the new Augusta
postofflce is to be let soon and *325,000
will be spent by thv Government in
erecting a magnificent structure on
the lot bounded by Barrett Plaza.
Telfair Eighth and Walker streets
H. G. Kale will soon begin the
erection of a handsome building on
the west side of Barrett Plaza and A.
Bryan Lawrence Is planning to build
a hotel adjoining the Kale Building.
Work will begin to-morrow morning
on the seventeen-story building which
will be erected here by the Empire
Life Insurance Company. The struc
ture will be one of the handsomest in
the entire South.
The Whitney Company has guar
anteed to finish the building on
schedule time, which is October 1
1914.
Indications are that the building
will rapidly fill up with tenants.
Martin * Garrett, the renting
agents, are already receiving numer
ous inquiries from out-of-town peo
ple who want space
The Empire Building will have
twelve main floors, there being five
stories to the tower. There will also
be offices in the tower. A total of
250 offices will be for rent.
PIEDMONT, ALA., Dec. 18.—Pearl
Hause, who was reported to have shot
accidentally Robert Cash Moore,
keeper of a shooting gallery. In a for
mal statement declares the rifle was
In the man’s own hands at the time
of the tragedy.
She explains: “The gun was not
even in my hands, for he (Mr. Moore)
had told me that my time was up,
and that was all. Forgetting that I
was due another gun, I turned to niy
sister and exclaimed, 'Oh, If I only
had another one,’ thinking that If I
did that I Could shoot down as many
birds as she had. Mr. Moore turned,
and, handing Baxter Formby a gun
with his right hand, reached with his
left hand and took my gun. Being
somewhat taller than I, he pulled it
straight to his head. When he took
hold of my gun I turned it loose and
dropped my hands to my side. As I
did so, the stock of the gun fell, hit
the board and was discharged. Then
the boy fell. So 1 must state that the
poor boy innocently and accidentally
shot himself with his own hands. Tile
eyewitnesses can and will verify my
statement.”
HOBSON BATTLE
GETTING HUTTER
Short-Term Senator To Be Se
lected—Optionists Will Name
Candidate for Governor.
BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 18.—Both the
United States Senatorial and the
State campaigns are beginning to
take on interesting turns in Alabama,
and the people of the outside, as well
as those in the State, are likely to
witness some most Interesting poli
tics.'
Announcement that the State Dem
ocratic Executive Committee will
meet the first week in January for
the purpose of fixing the date of the
State primaries, to settle on the
plans for the primaries, and also to
make provision for a Senator for the
short term, or rather to succeed Cap
tain Joseph F. Johnston, deceased,
the appointment by Governor O’Neal
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not being overlooked, has brought
considerable gossip.
The State campaign takes a new
turn upon announcement that the lo
cal optionists will settle on a candi
date and urge his nomlnatlpn. It Is
reported that Governor O’Neal Is to
assist in this movement. The candi
date to be selected will receive prac
tically the full support behind Gov
ernor O’Neal. The recent statements
that they would not get out of the
race, made by Captain Reuben F.
Kolb and John H. Wallace, rather
complicates things. Friends of Cap
tain Kolb assert that he la just as
strong In the country as former Gov
ernor B. B. Comer, who Is looked upon
as a formidable candidate. The local
optionists are anxious to defeat Co
mer, and may call on the railroad men
to assist
$1,500 Picture Not
An‘Innes,’but Fraud
ST. LOUIS. Dec. 13.- The genuine
ness of a 20-inch by 30-lnch land
scape, signed “George Innes,” and re
cently sold hpre for $1,500, has
aroused the interest of artists and
art dealers.
New York experts pronounce the
picture a fraud.
Charles E. Hussman bought it.
Later he took the picture to New
York, where experts reported that it
was not an Innes.
Hussman then went to R. U. Leon-
arl and got his money back.
Dean of University
Defends the Tango
SEATTLE, Dec. 13.—Mllnor Rob
erts, dean of the School of Mines at
the University of Washington, thinks
that the tango and other fancy dances
are pretty and undeserving of the at
tacks made on them. He was one of
the invited guests at the' Tea Dan-
sante given at the Hotel Yifashington,
at which the tango was danced.
“While I am not an authority on
dancing at all, the tango seems to me
a pretty dance when it done cor
rectly,” he said. “There is nothing
vulgar about it.”
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IFLIIIEB G TOHPIHIEIWK
You men and women who can't get
feeling right—who have headache, coated
tongue, foul taste and foul breath, dizzi
ness. can’t sleep, are nervous and upset,
bothered with a sick, gassy stomach
Are you keeping your bowels clean
with Caacarets- -or merely dosing your
self every few days with salts, pills, cas
tor oil and other harsh Irritants? Cas
carets Immediately cleanse and sweeten
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the stomach, remove the sour, undigest
ed and fermenting loou anu tout baotn;
take the exceos one Liom inu uvti ut,u
carry ott the consupa^u
and poison from the bowels.
A Cascaret to-night straightens you
out by morning a 10-eent box keeps
your head clear, stomach sweet liver
and bowels regular, and you feel bully
for montl^. Don’t forget the children
rAklHV ^ATUAOTIA
LOFTIS BOATENREITER
PLUMBERS
Have moved from 23 East Hunter Street to
95 MARIETTA STREET, Cone Street Entrance
‘Jfivtry'jf&o've
Sireryt/ting ’
MAT McGRATH—
World’s Champion Hammer Thrower
T WO YEARS of persistent practice enabled
Matt McGrath, New York’s ‘‘Giant Cop”,
to lift the laurel that had long rested upon John
Flanagan’s bronzed brow.
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At the Galway Men’s games at Celtic Park, New
York, October 28, 1911, McGrath smashed the world’s
record for throwing the 16 pound hammer—distance
187 feet 4 inches—three feet farther than Flanagan’a old
world's mark.
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