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— isr-isr 75.'/ t;, -c THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. « KU.VKKflAV, DKCKiU W. C. T. U. Tlit Willard Woman’s Chris- 11.111 Temparanee Union will meet as ua l Thursday afternoon nt 3 o'clock, , j;9 Washington street. Vlettors cor dially irnl, j|p gi M L M’l.BXOON, President. A. ADKINS. Recording Secretary. MR> MRS . VAN LANDINGHAM ENTERTAINS WHIST CLUB. wv-dii. sdav morning In her pretty siiuii'i!»nt at the Hotel Majestic, Mrs. "itnlflr Van Utndlngham entertained )ie , whist club. U'trr the game a delicious hot lunch- ,..,s seved. tv drb iti' tubers are Mrs. James W. a || 4 h, Jr.. Sira. Lowry Arnold. Mrs. I lush McKee, Mrs. Joseph Thompson, ,,,, Harvey Johnson, Sirs. George Brown. Sits. Archibald Davis, Mrs. s I'ltten. Sirs. Louis Obolstln, 'll- Harry J.cltson. Sirs. James H. Nunmillv. Sira. SI. B. Parsons. Sirs. Itobert B. Ridley, Mid. Ralph Van I andinghani. Sirs. Harry 51. Atkinson, ■,h- Albert Howell. Sirs. Clarence knowIrs, Mrs. Dunbar Roy and Sirs, j.-hn Aloore and Miss Annie Slltchcll. # CHRISTENING PARTY. . The Atlanta friends of Lieutenant ami Mrs. Hugh fecreven Brown, of Port II .ward. Pa.. Ill 11 be Interested In tile following. taken from the Chester nut' of .Sunday last: William Robertson Brown, the ln- -on of Lieutenant anti Mrs.'Hugh Screven Brown, of Fort Howard, was Christened yesterday afternoon at Saint Pauls Protestant Episcopal church bs tho rector. Rev. Francis M. Taltt. Lieu- tenant and .Mrs. William Wit t Ballard. wore the sponsors for the Infant. \\ ill lam Robertson Biown is command er In chief of the home of Lieutenant Brown and is one of the handsomest boya Jn Fort Howard.” brookwooeTcard CLUB. Tho Brookwood Kuchre Club will meet Wednesday evening with Mr. and Mrs. William A.' Speer at their home on Peachtree road. Those who arc members are: Mr. and Mrs. ^obn Murphy. Mr. and Mrs. Charley Black, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Jones, Mr. and Mrs. William Speer, Mr. and Mrs. James Xunnally, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Grady. Mr. and Mrs. Archi bald Davis, Mr, and Mrs. Howell Cloud. Mrs. John B. Roberts. Mr. and Mrs. William Humphrey. Mr. and Mrs. Eu gene Black. Mr. and Mrs. Hudson Moore. Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Crawford, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Seely, Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Crawford, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Buchanan, Miss .Lucy Harri son. ANNOUNCEMENT. The Atlanta chapter. Daughters of the American Revolution, will meet Saturday, December 16, at 3 p. m., at the residence of Mrs. H. M. Pafty, No. 16 East Linden street. This is the last meeting of the year and a large attendance is earnestly de sired. MRf4. H. W. FOSTER. Corresponding Secretary. PERSONAL MENTION J LEATHER GOODS MAKE IDEAL PRESENTS In the whole range of Christmas Presents there is nothing that can compare in beauty, value or usefulness with articles for the home. Among these leather goods for the parlor and library are preeminent. In our stock we are now showing some goods that are remarkable values in leather couches and chairs. Among them are Turkish Rockers, Genuine Leather Howard Chairs, Morris Chairs in oak and mahogany with imitation and genuine leather upholsterings. Our stock is so large that you will be able to get exactly the pattern that will match your other furniture and at a price impossible to duplicate elsewhere. ROCKERS C O U Chest on A. King andher sister. Cure King, of Louisiana, are visit- (j. W. King, at Thotnaxton, Ga., week. Miss King, who f.s espe- at tractive and accomplished, will Mrs. Grant Wilkins will return the last of thisweek from New York, where she lias been for some time. Misses Elizabeth and Lena White- i with Mrs. King, to be b^r guest p eaf j p ave returned to Macon, after \cial weeks, at the home of Dr. s p ort V | s tt to Atlanta. I i s. King, at West End. t and M .\[i. and Mrs. Thomas Scrulchtns l:;;vreturned from their wedding trip .miI arc comfortably settled at the ljMino -.f Mr. and Mrs. John Ball, in UivciMdc. Jacksonville, Fla. Mis- Emma Robinson has returned fi.mi n visit of several weeks to Miss •; ntiv Harris, at Macon. She was de- i.'hifully feted during her stay in Mc- .Mr and Mrs. James l\ Horne have fturned from Washington. D. t\, nnd if now at the home of Mrs. A. M. Suikc. No. it West North avenue. .Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Thomas and .Miss .\w)ic Thomas have issued invitations m an afternoon reception on Thursday, the juth. at 43 West North avenue. .Mr. and Mrs. Janies Armstrong, of Montgomery, formerly of Atlanta, are pending a few weeks in the city, at "A avenue. Mis Nellie Kiser Stew ait. who Is at- i- :idiiig Lucy « *obb Institute in Athens, in < .r-nci the holidays at her home In Atlpnto. ML? Lulu Merrick, who has been several weeks in the city, left U>Unc*(iay for her home in New York . and Mrs. Horace A. Adams, of linghom. will spend the holidays in ity the guest of friends. Mrs. George Cunningham, who has been the guest of Mrs. Louis Gholstin. has returned to Augusta. Mrs. Frank Sheffield, of Americas, Is the guest,of her sister. Mrs. Lott Warren, 137 Xec street, West End. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Johnson will leave in r few days for Montgomery to spend the holidays with relatives in that city Mr. und Mrs. Sidney Stubbs and lit tle daughter, of Savannah, arc the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Gay. Mrs. Dunbar Roy left Tuesday for Richmond to visit her father, Mr. T. H. Eliott. Mrs. Noel Wright luf.« returned to Savannah, after visiting friends In At lanta. Mrs. C. C. Hanson has returned from an extended visit to Memphis, Tenn. Mrs. F. Van Rensselaer is the guest of relatives In Jacksonville, Fla. Mrs. John Barry lias returned from Raleigh, N. C. Mrs. W. R. Joyner, Jr., has from Marietta. Mrs. Thomas B. Stewart bus returned DO IT NOW! Leather Goods Make Ideal Gifts. I laud I Jags .,50c to $15 < 'iliar Pouches, $1 to $5 Medicine Cases. $1.00 to $8.50 Self -Lif ting-T ray Trunks Music Rolls up from 50c Glove and Handker chief Sets ...... .$1.75 M ilitary Brushes, pair ..$1.00 Lieberman’s Suit Cases ra r— ■ ^ i . _ . j; L j Are Lasting Reminders Are Welcome Gifts. of the Giver. . Plain or Fitted. $6.00 to $45.00. $3.00 to $75.00. “we make the trunks we sell.” t Travelers’ Flasks up to $5.00 l ap Desks. 65c to $8.50 35c Collapsible Cups Bridge Sets $3.50 ASK OUR GIFT EXPERT, HE’S GOT THE LIST 92 Whitehall Street. 17.50 to $100.00 COUCHES Imitation and Genuine Leather $2.50 to $35.00 ——^ * Rhodes-Haverty Furniture Co. SIXTY-THREE AND SIXTY-FIVE PEACHTREE STREET from Athens'. ATLANTA NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD Mr. Clark, to Sp£ak. •Mr. Edward Young Clarke wilt de liver another of bis strict ot lecture, before the Atlanta Bible School Wed nesday flight. The subject will be "A ’niverse of Wot,dels," fitly following the one of Sunday night on "A Great Creator.” The school is located on ALLEGED PEONAGE CASES TO BE HEARD i CLEARLY DEFINED IN FEDERAL COURT 1 BY SUPREME COURT .-ini The 'I’vorginn. Charlotte*. X. <\. Doc. 13.—Federal court, convened here yesterday witn Judge Janies E. Boyd presiding. The cases of alleged peonage in con- ('ooper street, third block from White- t nectlon with the South and Western USle^^AU”.a a ^r‘e b,C NA 0 atfnr If/?? ™ to ^ TT” fllon is charged for the lecture. | ami for that reason the sessions of the —-- | court promlso to be full of interest. Ntw Bank Is Chartered. J These alleged cases occurred some The .Merchants’ mid Formers’ Bank, months ago in the western purt of the of Nicholls, Coffee county, was granted a chsrter Wednesday by the secretary of state. It has a capital stock of 000 with J. A. Davis, F. O. Jones, D. Kirkland and others ns incorporators. This is the sixty-eighth state bank chartered during 1906. Police Board Meet*. 1 For tnci hours Tuesday night the po lice board was in session at the police b&iracks for the purpose of examining the tnedicpl certlfier.tex of applicants for positions on the force. The meet ing was a called one nnd no other busi ness was transacted. Two Men Injured. As n result «»f injuries received on the railroad, two men are lying in the Gra dy Hospital, where they were taken late Tuesday afternoon. One Is Toni Jones, of 104 Davis street, who wus injured about the body and head by a rent nil* engine, and other Is A. C, Landrum, of Athens, Gn.. whose nrm was crushed so budly by a Westcrn % and Atlantic train under the Forsyth street bridge as to necessitate amputation. Neither of the men is seriously in jured. Anti-Saloor. League. The Atlanta Anti-Saloon League will hold an oprn meeting at the Young Men’s Christian Association build ing next Friday night, when reports of committees on prohibition and other inattcis will be read and considered. The meeting will begin at 7:30 o'clock and a full attendance is expected. stale, where the now railroad line being constructed. Judge H»yd, In his charge to the grand jury, has laid special stress on tlie question of what constitutes i*»oii- age, saying that it is a condition of compulsory servitude under master. It Is an individual or collective action Viaduct owned by one Rosenthal. At his death ills daughter came Into possession and her husband, .Samuel Goldstein, oper ated It. Hchane was a clerk. The two cases were tried jointly before the re forming a man to work under a threat, fcorder. He fined Schano $200 und costs A clerk in a pawnbrokers office can not be Jiold personally liuble for fail ure to report pawned property, ns re quired by city ordinance, such duty ’being delegated to the proprietor ’of such places, Such is the decree of the supreme court In tlie case of David Schane, brought up from tlie recorder’s court in Atlunta. From the evidence Schane and Samuel Goldstein wore haled Into court on the charge of failure to re port to the police the purchase of a shotgun from n negro. The pawnshop was known ns tlie i fines vagrancy in the case of Phyletus Shop. It was formerly I Darby, convicted In the city court ' GIRLS WANTED We want three or four bright, intelligent girls as salesladies during the holi days in our retail store at 77 Whitehall St. Apply with reference to W. H. Rountree & Bro. Trunk & Bag Co., W. Z. Turner, Manager. 77 Whitehall St. It v. ill also be remembered that sev eral Italians wore Killed in uu encoun ter with sonio of the overseers at tin* camps, nVid this served to bring the ui- leged peonage matter to the notice of the state and governments. in both cases. It was certlorarled to superior court, where tlie recorder was sustained. Now the supreme court reverses this decree, because 8chane was it mere clerk. Vagrancy Defined. The supreme court again clearly tie- VERV IMPORTANT QUESTION DISCUSSED In Atlanta the Question of Servants Has Become To Be One of Considerable seriousness. BIG LOSS SUSTAINED TO COTTON SEED CROP. WISE PEOPLE USE VANTAGE POINTS THE BEST MAGAZINES j And Generally They Are Doing Economical Things That ‘ Never A PP ear t0 Some Less Thinking People. AT THE BEST RATES. livery one must keep up with daily events going on so rapidly all the time. If you do not read some daily paper you are falling behind. If you do not read some good magazine and en joy the literature that Is contained in these publications every month you ftebplv The Souii tlon that dell*** comparison in the way of “doing •thing.*.” For instance, foe many months back it lias been no easy matter to secure the necessary service of servants. For what reaxon no one can just exactly tell. A good home does •eni to be any inducement, extra Columbus on a vagrancy charge. The lower court Is sustained In the follow ing language: •’Evidence which establishes that one is a*habitual loafer and loiterer, both morning and evening, tn the tenderloin district of a city, who Is able to work and lias no property, no reasonably continuous employment and no regu lar income, 1* sufficient to support a conviction of vagrancy under the pro visions of the penal code.” Judge's Charge Grounds of Revtrtel. Because tho judge In ills charge ! stressed the importance to the jury of : expert testimony In tlie trial of a man charged with arson, and whose plea ■ was insanity, the supreme court re verses the conviction In the lower, i court. \V. F. Smith was convicted of arson 1 in Wan* county. Testimony showed ! that ho burned tlie house occupied by j Ids wife and children, first firing at his • wife twice with n Winchester rifle. ■ Smith had been in the state asylum j once, but a physician from that instl- i tutioii testified that Smith was eccen- trie, but of sound mind. Non-expert testimony was Introduced to show that he was Insane. In charging he jury the Judge con trasted the experts and inexpert testl- ttnony. On this ground the' supreme. rp-rj-ri WlUra’I'niY GPDTPC court reversed the lower court. j AH£i WinoiUn 0£jXV1£j0 Local Option Law. The supreme court Wednesday af firmed two ruses from t’rlsp county In volving questions of infraction of the local, option law. Bryant Smith, of Fordele. was tiled for ordering liquor by telephone, but appealed, after being convicted. The supreme court held that the contention that he acted as agent or buyer and ordered whisk)* over tlie telephone was a mere subtev i fuge mid pretense I I legal sale of whisky Mpeclal In The Georgian, Gainesville, Ga., Dec. 13.—By reason of the rainy weather during the au tumn und fall, the’ farmers of Hall county and the proprietors of the two oil mills In the county, one at Gaines ville and one at Flowery 'Branch, are out $28,750. Last year the oil mills paid *19 and $20 a ton for cotton seed, j This year the seed yield five gallons ; less of oil to the ton. and oil'is worth, from 4 to 6 cents less per gallon. There Is 250 pounds less cotton seed meal t,o , the ton, and It Is 2 per cent off In grade to what was realised last year; from 60 to 80 pounds less hulls ure se cured from a ton of seed tlmn last year, and the lint from seed Is bring ing from 2 to 2 1-2 cents-less per pound. All of these items figure up a total of $6.55 less u ton than the oil mills real ised lost year. . Tho Planters’ oil mill, of Gainesville, usually buys about 1,400 tons of seed each season: and the Flowery Branch min buys about 1,100 tons, making a total of 2,500 tons of seed annually sold in Hal! county. OF ALGER BOOKS, are missing much that is good. You | ordinury high wages counts but iittle, can secure The Georgian every day tn the year, except Sunday, and one of the most prominent magazines in America for a little more than the price of The Georgian alone, which Is only $4.50 per year. Take advantage ot For boys, with colored Illustrations, at Miller’s. Tills excellent series of books comprises all of Horatio Alger's fa- . mous hooka for boys, printed on paper of excellent quality in uniform style of binding, colored frontispiece and col- ored illustrations. The best made, most attractive Christmas book for cover up the II- ; boys. Tlie price of Alger’s, books In ’. j this series is 50c. We Ure making tho ' „ .«■**. 1 Price of three at $1.00. We mention a Through Special Trains \ ■ Adrift m the city,” "Bound to i Rise.'’ “Brave end Bold,” "Do and Dare,” "Facing the World,” "Helping Himself,” "Try and Trust,” **TJie Young _ „ ; Salesman” nod others.' CENTRAL OF GEORGIA john m.^jiller^co.. bibb raises kick OVER LOSING SCHOOL. -via RAILWAY Jisposl* f «xtremol> happy to know of thi chine. We Hilt be glad to demon at any tlnn* end to anybiMly Ihc re.if beauties and many economical fouturc- «f tin* Majestic Washing Machine. This machine, the Majestic Washing Ma chine. saves time, :u\«s labor, save, clothes, saves money. With it one worn- j an cun do the v. ashing for a* big fam- so the outcome of it Is Juftt this, hun- !■>*- It w aalws tlie heaviest garment a { •beds ami hundred* of the best farn- perfectly and docs not Injure the rno-fi Hies are now doing their own work {delicate fabrics. Ho simple ami so < and ate building an Independent feel- | easy to run that a child can operate It. ■RptpW'Pp.’M’ ATT.ANTA ling on the servant question. For In- Htrong, handsome— will hist for yeaw. ” IiIiB I. A . ‘ stance, the Ohs Stove has worked won- | With the Majestic Washer ami one of; ANP ALBANY • **p«*«*i*i | .let s. The prepared foods have cut our Peerless Wringers the home Is ... _ . . . . . ' down the real cooking proposition, hut complete; only $7.5o is tlie price of the Effective with first train leaving At- BARRON 18 APPOINTED j the lust of all the washing machine has | Washer, and the Wringer* are piled' 8: '{ , » u * m ’ JJP** ASSISTANT ATTORNEY, t m tor a »h»» ot no Hair litteiw. | to M 2 <-. Albany i p. in.. l^«n;>Kr - 1 HV have now rot- .-tile in our place tlie! We will he veij p-Itul t„ .how eny tfal of tleergla Railway Pill operate i-elebratetl Stajeetie W.mltlnt; Jta- j lady at any time the many Breal nt- "P*™ 1 1 ■hfne. Why. n ehllil can almost tlo the! traction* offere.1 In the-e two machines Whole famllv wash nn«l loolt upon the 1 They nil ure not* a necew.lty and .1 K'oasion ns tt matter of piny. | tit Inc of much economy md should Ik A Indy v ho ha* suffered nil the a to- adopted bv nil households, ales of the servant and washerwoman; .KING. HARDWARE CO., tuestiott ten he very much plot—tl and * 53 Peachtree St. f 87 Whitehall St. L Special »o The Georgian. Columbia, H. ¥*., Doc. 12.—Charles . Barron, of the Columbia Imr, wax today apixdnied axsixtant attorney gen- I for the unexpirrd term, vice Ihincnn i\ Ray. promoted from tjuit position to attorney general. „ and including Decam- . her 25. for the accommodation of holl- , day travel. For detailed information, apply to your nearcHt ticket agent, or commu nicate with the undersigned. i W. H. FOGG, Dill Past, Agent. The Georgian. .Macon, Ga., Dec. 12.—There wa great deal of dixappolntment in Mi yesterday when It waa announced Pike county had been awarded the rfculturai college for this district, ue fplte the fact that* Bibb county bir $24,000 mote than ahy other court> Both J. If. Hall and Governor Terrel are being roundly roasted by the pc«»pl> Here, they being charted with the 1- - •*f the college. t —