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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN bltiiLii, LaujiLi I • iJvb. Dining Room Suggestions. Some people would rather have their dining room the prettiest room in the house. It is the room your guests always see. It is the room used together every day. It is the room you will use when entertaining* These are all good leasons for having it inviting. A pretty Dining Table will make your Dining Room more attractive than any other piece of furniture. We have them in all designs, woods and finishes. Prices tb suit the most economical as well as those desiring the most expensive. From $12.50 to $250. This Table in Solid Mahogany, DINING TABLES IN SOLID AND VENEERED MAHOGANY AND QAK IN ANY ■ ' FINISH. This Table in Early English RHODES-HA VERTY FURNITURE CO. 63-65 Peachtree NUNN ALLY CANDY STORE OPENS A HANDSOME NEW BRANCH IN BIRMINGHAM <»rw «*f the newest and handsomest addition* to the business houses of Birmingham, Ala., Is the •beautiful Xunnally candy store, which was open ed in that city on Deconiber 4. It Is •nc of the handsomest stores of the kind in the entire South. The llnlNhlngs are all of mahogany, marble, mosaic and heavy plate glass mirrors. The woodwork, Including the tables and chairs. Is nil of the same rich wood—the beautiful solid mahog- any -and the tables have marble tops. The walls are almost entirely covered with immense mirrors, reaching nearly the celling, and being of an artistic antique design. The rear of the store Is a great urn lioguny und plat© glass Ice box, where cut (lowers, shipped from the Nun- ( APT. FRED FORD TO LEAD REVIVAL OF SALVATION ARMY In common with other people, the Halvah n Army is busy this month with its Christmas preparations, but n " : too busy to work In u week of re- vlMl meetings. •Major nntl Mrs. Uerrlinan, the dlvls- •"tnd officer* of the Mouth, will Inau- K'li.im the campaign Mr souls, begin- nin? with a musical service on Hun- night, In which the divisional song- 1‘tlgad® will take part. The meet* InjTs tnuu Tuesday night to the fol- !«*•% 'ns? Monday will he led by Captain niil Ford, the converted gambler and •di-round bad man.” Captain Ford l:is lit.d a wonderful experience, having 'p h oiw of the worst characters In ' Ity of Cleveland, Ohio, where ho »*mt iIk* Sulvutlou Army, who made him "luil he is. • naliy green houses In Atlanta every evening, are kept for sale. The soda fountain Is a very hand some and extensive afTalr, being of the very newest design and pattern. It has a capacity of over 5,000 drinks dally. About 150 employees will be* required to operate this big und beautiful plant. The chocolates sold In the Birming ham store will be made at the big Xunnally plant on Ivy street, In At lanta, but the other candles will be made In a new plant at Birmingham. The people of the Alabama city huve ulready shown their appreciation of this most attractive business venture and Nunnally’s storo promises to take a place ns one of the leading features of Birmingham’s business district. Nunmilly’s candles, too. are rapidly becoming very popular. Indeed, In every otty and town from one end of the Mouth to the other. DROWNS HERSELF' TO New York, Dec. 7.—Firm In ttie be lief thnt her own iloath would reunite her and her father. Miss Kthel Me- Roberta, a Brooklyn girl, leaped Into the itea at Coney Inland today and was drowned. She was the daughter of a wealthy family and lived with her mother tqi.l brother. William K. MeRobertH, ft real estate broker. From the moment her father died she has been Inconsolable. .. is announced ut Odessa, Russia, that orders have been placed wltb the N’lkolllleff ship building surds for four up-to-date torpedo cruisers to be ut- t inched to the Black Sett fleet. T mu OTHERS OPPOSE IT The four hours of wmulerlug Ju a laby- rin filial innsc, discussing, fussing and “©(rising" Thursday over the report to raise th«* salaries of a number of city officials will be almost as nothing beside wbnt Is scheduled to happen nt the neat session of council. Thn salary committee has Introduced an ordinance, which will request the legislature to amend the city charter so ns to allow city couucllmon and nldermen to Im» paid per year, Instead of 1300, as hereto* fpre*. This ordinance has Wen drawn up and tiled In the clerk's office. It Is provided therein that the senator from this district and the representatives from this county shall Ik* acquainted with the adoption of the ordinance, and thnt they shall lie urged to do their utmost to have the legislature so change the city charter. There are a number of councljmei) who re unalterably opposed to tho proposed raise. There are others who as earnestly vor the raise. When the matter comes there Is sure to lie a heated discos in. The raise will amount In total to >7,200 per year. There are those who contend that the statement of Ur. nroughtou In regard to the small pay of council men, In which. It Is stated, there was an Intimation of graft, lias led to the proposed raise. Others re* hemeiitly deny this. Ik* KILLED HIM, OF COURSE I DID,” Emotional Insanity Is the Grounds on Which Case Is Fought. GUIDES’ LOVE OF DRINK KEPT HER FROM GOAL New York, Dec. 7.—Because her Pe ruvian porters drank up her alcohol that she needed for cooking purposes, and because they were cowardly and lasy. Miss Annie Peck, who Is said by many to be America’s greatest moun tain climber, foiled In her attempt to reach the summit of Mount Husac Husacaran, In Peru, 73,000 feet above the level of the sea. Miss Peck, disappointed, .yet chip per and good natured throughout, ar rived herp on the steamship Trent, hav ing come from Peru by wny of Colon. Miss Peck mado two attempts to climb this mountain, but was only successful In u climb of 18 000 feet. H9HHI CHANGE IT » LIA MONEY INU DOWN •WANT SOME CLOTHING? If you can afford to pay $1.00 a week you can afford to wear high grade clothing—come here and get it—we trusty you—64 Stores—Cash Store OVERCOATS. S? to S2 HEN’S SUITS * BOYS* OVERCOATS. S+ to SI2 BOYS' SUITS, S3 to SIO WOMEN’S COATS, SIO to 530 WOMEN’S SUITS. SIO to S32 FUR SCARFS. S2 to S20 TRIMMED HATS, S2.30 to SIO IMMED IIAlb. to _ f Over 79 Whitehall Street. Store Open Evening, Until After Chriotmao. THROUGH SLEEPING CAR LINE TO MEMPHIS. Every day from Union Depot. Only a nlgbt’a ride. Dining ear service. Leaves Atlanta 4:43 p. ‘lit. SEABOARD AIR LINE. The Georgian, one of the South's best afternoon dai lies, is given free for one month with purchases of §5 j Unxlcburtit, Miss., Nov, 7.—Emotional In sanity is tho plea of Mrs. Anglo Birdsong, tho child-wife of Ur. .f. F. Birdsong, and tho nloro of Unltod State* (Venn tor Mc- Laurlu, in lior ilofousc of the ohargn of hav ing murdered her old family physician, I)r. Thomas F. Butler. Boon after tho tak ing of testimony bad begun counsel for the defense went straight to tho question whether the so -called “unwritten law” Jus tified Mrs. Birdsong's act, and tboy secured a strong (tosltloii In their client's favor, through the court's ruling.* This ruling was asked by the defense In eross-exnmiuatlon, whether Ur. Butler had ever told tho wit ness, It. N. Miller, of hla relations with Mrs. Birdsong. The Jury was sent from the room nml a sharp debate was engaged In upon the admissibility of -this evidence. Judge Miller declared thnt he would re quire of the defense evidence to prove that each of the statements admitted was re peated to the defendant. Tha remarks about Mrs. Birdsong were based on notes alleged to hare been written by her to Ur. Rutler. Evidence taken was to establish the fact of- the shooting. Mrs. Birdsong appeared calm am! self- possessed at the session. Iter husbsnd. who has hecn Indicted as an accessory, but who is not on trial, manifested keen concern in ie evidence submitted. Mrs. Ulrdsoiig. talking with friend* In the court house, said: “Of course I killed lilm. I shot him as I would n snake, lie ruined hi else to A ‘YANKEE’ WOMAN’S VIEWS ON NEGRO AS RACE HAVE CHANGED SINCE TRIP SOUTH EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT, SOUVENIR NIGHT AT THE NEW KIMBALL PALM GAR DEN. BALLARD BIFOCAL. A revelation to glass wearers, does or mnrfl at. Smith Hr. Hifrm'ns i *way with two pairs ot glasses, both oi mure dt omit,a 06 xiiggins. i rettd | ng nllrt walking vision in one Both stores. ' frame, and looks like one glass. It lias 1 proven the most successful of all the advertised Invisible bifocals. They are being sold by all the leading houses In America und nbroad. Our oculist's prescription department Is the most perfect system ever Inaugurated In this country. Not how cheap, but how well we can ftirve you. Ask the oculist about us. Walter Ballard Optical Company, (1 Peachtree .street. DOT HEAVY GRIST Several divorce* were granted In ths superior court by Judge Pendleton on Friday morning. Only one was a sec ond verdict. Maude Jones Funis got u second verdict of total divorce from Rosie A. Farris. Plaintiff was given liberty to marry again, but this wqs denied de fendant. Desertion was the charge. Other divorces granted were: Knmi.t L. Farr from Joel Farr, for habitual drunkenness und cruelty of defendant; Finney Sahll from Frank tl. Bohll. for ; habitual drunkenness and cruelty of • defendant; E. II. Chovln from Mrs. If. . B. Chovln. This divorce was granted • for cruelty. Petitioner said he was an old man and unable to defend himself, ami that Ills wife after heaping insult I upon idm, beat lifm with u stick, caus ing many bruises, and then left him. SOUTH CAROLINANS TO SMOKE AND CHAT Tin* Him lb Carolina goclety will give a smoker nt tin- Kimball botim- on Iteccm- lH-r l-l at 7 o'clock, nml It In expectcii that a targe crowil will' attend. An elegant menu ban Ih-cd prepared and an hit,-resting program arranged. Secrewry J. I*. 81,*111- chnini, la now .ending out nnrteea or lb# .moker. and receiving tin- name, of tli«»v who will attend. Mian Florence Flatter, who playa Ruth in “The One Woman" Company, haa gained eome new Ideas of the negro through her study ot Thomas Dixon’* stories and plays, anti more especially since her coming to the Sobth. Miss Fisher ho* Interested herself In a close study of tho race question and In discussing her views of the negro a* a class, she says: The great -problems’ of any nation must be determined, not by a specific and Immediate decision of Its people, but by a slow adjustment of condi tions which tho changes of time alone can bring about. So It must bo with this most recent qnestion of vital meaning to our country—tho race problem. “To me, a Northern woman, who heretofore has based her knowledge of the negro upon history and book lore., this problem I* at Its core a purely physical one. Before I over came In direct contact with negro, conditions 1 studied them as one studies all types of hunu<ntty. studied about their thick, black skin, thetr primitive bruin con struction. their naturally uncultivated tastes and habits. “They represented to me a good specimen of one of God’s lower or ders of humanity whom He made to lit a lower order of Hts universal plan; for although we may talk of the ’brotherhood of man’ and put forth the abstract beauties of ’equality,’ we must In order to fulfill a universal plan. Iiavo different orders of humanity, differ ent scalea of society, dlffcrsnt planes of development. Tho building of nny house requires both the ditch digger und accomplished artisan. The mo- I nuunent. inent the ditch digger could he en- l*m, not sirs WIFE MW THINGS IT Hill Charging that his wife. w|iom he married In England, treated him with “great rudeness qnd Incivility and In tentional ; unklndnew,” ttiat sho fre quently went Into tantrums and threw things at him itdd -that sho finally de serted blip, William Berrldgc Hied suit In the superior 'court Friday morning asking for a total divorce, ” - ■>,- , , change this unalterable fact. ' ’• "So It Is with the negro. It 1, n„t a question of education, of npriortunln. of equality. It Is a big physl gl.-.'il fact which bars tho black man fr..i * achieving, ns a. racg, un equal footing with the white .niun along any line. “In the North we hear the rare prob lem discussed by all thinking men. It must-necessarily lie to them 'inure or less of nn abstract question, for they fin tint nnttiA In rnminM 1 i-.-lil, It.. •*„». do not come In cdntact with U* ma ll • to theta terlal evidence. It appeal* reHHon. To the Foutheriter it ir more ' vital. It strikes his heart. He clam ors for Its Immediate«sohifton. If thcr question were merely a *e<*Uonul one.- u few master minds could solve It In a m ‘ i But It W« not. 'It 1*4 n prob ed ucatlon, not of politics. (lowed with th© mental faculties of the 1 no? of equality, not of u few years' artist, he would no longer be content with the ditch, and would lay down Ills - pick and shovel and the house would not be built. But his creator wisely ordained that he should not have the capacity for much greater ambition, and thus the scheme of hu man toclety works out Its destiny. “This Is not an nrgdinent for 'caste* in Bh cruel Eastern sense, but merely an acknowledgment of a universal fact; that some men must bo served and others serving to complete the world's development; that some type? of numan beings must live, to whom a capacity for the highest mental de velopment Is Impossible by absolute physical laws—beings whoso very bruin construction does not admit of an equality with that of higher types of Immunity—and no law of man can duration, nor springing from any spe cific cause—It Is just one phase of Hod's universal scheme of humanity which the adjustment of time alone can solve; a scheme which works anil will work for nil eternity to on© sure end; 'The survival of the fittest'—and the fittest, according to all physical law Is humanity's highest type—tns whits man. “This undercurrent of race contention Is nn Inevitable result of new and rad ical changes in (Mimical conditions. It Is small nt its vltul cole, nnd will fade Into oblivion before tlje Big eternal fact that the very physical and men tal construction of a black man for- ver bars him from attaining the plane >f development which God has decreed for HIm chosen masters of Immunity—* the white man.” v/inston Churchill has Issued a state, rnent nt t'oncord, N. H., In which he says he Is not a candidate for United ritntc* senator. * Candy 5( ) Cents per Pound Candy 30 Cents per Pound Candy 2( Cents per Pound . Candy 1( . Cents per Pound GEO. E. JOHNSON CO. 38 WALL STREET. FRONT OF OLD CAR SHED. X. B.- % |-Aiiy father, or mother, or guardian who arc* unable to buy their Christmas Candy for their children, if they will call at Geo. E. Johnson’s Factory on De cember 21, 22, 24. they will receive a box of candy for each child FREE. This has been Johnson’s <;ustom tor the last twenty years, nnd the only candi factory in the United States thnt gives to the children free.