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THE ATLANTA GEORQLAN. ■
I'RSDAT. DECEMBER 27, 1W
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OUR PLATFORM.-The Georgian
itanda for Atlaata'a ownlng Its own gaa
Ugh' *
irwc
with a progt
be done at once.
Here* that If etreet railway*
operated ancceaefnlly by B u ro
eltle*. aa they are, there la n
m ~
§*40L
nsrtaklng. Still AtUiifs ahouiS act lie
face In tbit direction NOW.
How Georgia and Alabama Grow.
A striking prcngntatlon and an eg-
cellent advertisement of the Induitrlal
development and construction prog-
reu In Georgia and Alabama la given
In this week'c laaue of The Georgia
and Alabama Industrial Index, In
which appears a concise summary of
advance reports printed In The Index
during the last half of 1906.
During that period The Index has
reported for Alabama 223 new corpo
rations with a total minimum capital
stock of $10,682,204 and for Georgia
237, with a total minimum capital
stock of $10,778,'900. These figure . do
not Include banks and railroads. Oth-
er totsls of new Industries and con
struction given are aa follows:
Ala. <ln. Total.
Hank* as r,j a*
Ginneries 18 tx II
Ice ptnnts 8 * I,
I,lght iilhnta is 42
l.uiulo-r idiinta 48 si 19
on mills II 7 n
Power plnnla It s 22
Itallnani* 7 II is
Klrctrl.' railways In 12 22
Knitting mills..
'‘aiming lartori.-s 2
Ifotllln.- plants .1
Hrlvk plants 7
Ceil I plants :t
Pelllliaer plant s
Pnrmu'cs 4
Poumlrln* 5
Gas plain* 4
I'olirlnp. block plant*....s 1
latnmlrb'M r»
Furniture fnctnrlcs
Naval stinv* plant* .7
New mining o|H'rnllon« 18.
Machine aim
llnilncs* Uulbllng*
Thre,- itoiie* '27 28 S8
Pour abirle*. 7 12 18
Plvc atorle* a 8 8
Nix atorle* 1 a 4
Heyett atorle*..... 13 4
Eight alorlr* .14 7
Ten ilorica 1 1 1
Plfteen atorle* 1 • 1
t'ourt Ionise* a tf, 21
J»H» 4 in 14
Dentils la pi 2*
Hotel* la 17 an
hteel bridges 14 ir. 28
I’burrhc* 28 »i 5*
l.lbrarlc* r. 7 p*
fefcOMe 47 82 88
Theater* 8 pi 15
Warehouses % 21 88
1. M. I.'. A. building*..... 4 8 PI
Paving eonttmetlnn 56 In 85
ftfwera 18 s 47
Waterworks 12 19 31
Of this summary The Index says:
"As large and significant aa are
these figures, they convey but partial
idea of the great development in the
two slates during the past half year.
Many Industrial plants, comparative,
ly small In number and varied In char
acter, are not included In the above
summary. Neither do the figures In
themselves Indicate the extent of In
vestment. For Instance, the three ce
ment plants reported represent total
Investments of nearly $3,000,000. In
business buildings nothing smaller
than a three-story structure Is given
from the many of smaller size report
ed In The Index, though many of the
latter are costly, as In the case of a
1160,000 one-story bank building pro
jected In a Georgia city."
A Philadelphia paper runs hall a
column headed "Christmas Tragedies
tn the South." A full page it devoted
to the same kind of occurrences In
Philadelphia.
Thoie fellows who tried to “get
next” to the president by sending him
Christmas- presents will be somewhat
jarred when the packages come back
unbroken.
Aunt Ella Marks, aged 114 years, is
still complacently smoking her pipe In
her New York home. Jtttt cited as an
Incident of Interest and not to point a
moral.
On* can uow get telephone connec
tion with a moving train. Irate pas
sengers down this way on belated
1 rains will probably aval! themselves
■ > *bt opportunity to call np the bead
and say some real unkind
A Pittsburg paper says that the
Smokey City Is the most God-rearlug,
moral place in the country. News,
that, sure. From a recent pernsal of
papers people had just the other kind
of Impression about It.
Here’s another scandal for ^Senator
Bailey to combat. Item In a paper
says "Senator Bailey has purchased
the fast Miss Edgar." It la proper
however, to explain that "Miss Edgar”
is a race horse.
ANSWER “THE TECH’S’* APPEAL NOW.
V/e trust that no good citizen'who loves Atlanta will fail to consider
the appeal which The Georgian makes for Atlanta’s great and famous
echool.
The School of Technology must have the two adjacent lota which it
needs for absolutely essential building* and enlargement.
It muat have those lots bsfore next Tuesday noon, or the opportunity
will be lost.
The Georgian has backed Its faith by its works and has given as liber
ally as It could to the cause. If The Georgian’s capacity was equal to Its
Inclinations we would put our hands into our pockets and contribute the
whole amount rather than have the Tech mias this rapidly passing oppor
tunity.
We are proud of the Technological 8chool. We are proud of the fame
it had two years ago. We are prouder of the much greater fame It has to
day, There Is no school like It In the 8outh. There are few schools as
good anywhere. We like to boast of it when we go abroad. We like to use
It a* the argument to Indues ntw men to come to Atlanta where Its great
facilities may be enjoyed. We know how many people It does bring to
Atlanta and to Georgia.
We are proud of the one hundred and twenty-five Atlanta boys who
are turned out every year from the Tech superbly equipped for practical
usefulness and success In the world. Wie are proud of the splendid rein
forcement which It brings to the scientific and Industrial development of
the city and the 8outh. We are proud of the princely contribution of one
hundred thousand dollara which It makes every year to the pay rolle of At
lanta.
We don't wleh the Tech to atop growing- We don't wiah our great
echool to be hindered and retarded, for lack of room, or to be refused by
the' city which It honors when It. etstee a plain peceaalty like this.
Atlanta Is rich enough to give tho $4,000 needed by the Tech with
out a moment’s hesitation. It ie rich enough to do this if It were a poorer
city than it Is. It Is rich enough at any time to do It. It ie especially
rich enough now In this period of superb prosperity, and In the full
flueh of this radiant and overflowing season.
Now, citizens of Atlanta, you who read theee lines and know them
to be true—you who love and honor Georgia’s great school and Atlanta’s
chief ornament, follow the Impulse that Is In your mind straight and man
fully to your pocket, and aend a contribution at liberal as your puree can
make It, to this hour of the Tech's opportunity and necessity.
Don’t wait, but do it now. Do It heartily and do It quickly.
You will not have done a worthier thing In ell this holiday.
GEORGIA GRANITE AND MARBLE FOR THE POSTOFFICE.
Let It he understood that the Georgian la taking no sides In the con-
troveray between the marble and granite ninterlal to he used (n the
splendid building which Is to house Atlanta's next postofllce.
The Georgian has In previous local comment given so much of Impor
tance to the granite industry that the marble quarry men have grown ap
prehensive that public opinion was being carried altogether In that di
rection.
The Georglau stands impartial and admiring between theae-two state
ly apd splendid products of our Imiierlal state. Georgia is rich both In
granite and In marble for the construction of any building no matter
what Its size or Importance may be, whether for public use or for the
gratlflcatlon of private taste. Our granite quarries are rich- about us.
In the splendid county of DeKatb we have two mountains, one large and
one small, made of granite, that Is fit, to build the cities of the world. In
Pickens and in other counties to the north of us we have marble whose
fineness and polish would adorn the finest buildings of the country. And,
so far from taking sides between.these splendid products, The Georgian
recognizes that both of them are necessary for the public buildings of the
future. We sincerely trust that Senators Bacon and Clay and Congressman
Livingston will diligently see to It when the material Is chosen for
the construction of the government' postofllce In Atlanta, that the granite
or Its walls and the marble of Its finishings shall come from the state
whose capital this beautiful national building will adorn.
These beautiful products of Georgia have already been sent to the
adornment and growth of other cities and other states. The granite of
DeKnlli has Its place In scores of public buildings that are admired the
country over, and the marble In the various quarries of Georgia has fur
nished the adornment for beautiful buildings In as many stales.
The Washington Herald declines to
go off after fads, even If fathered by
President Roosevelt and Mr. Carnegie.
It stand by the old "blue back speller."
"Mall unusually heavy,” reads au
Item In au exchange. No, not weigh-
Ing-ln time to fix the railroads' com
pensation for carrying mall, but just
the holiday rush.
It Senator Bailey ahould be turned
down by the legislature of Texas, It
lets down the bare for a vigorous and
hopeful field of “probabilities." each
of whom Is ready and willing to as
sume the responsibility,of represent
ing the great state of Texas in the
senate of the United Slates. Among
In the tall timber, la the Hon. Thomas
Campbell, the outgoing governor: ex-
Governor Joseph D. Sayers, ex-Senator
Roger Q. Mills, and Representatives
Burleson and Burgess.
This Is quite a hopeful field, but per
haps It might be well not to be too
hopernl until Senator Balley'a ease la
disposed of.
A Richmond police magistrate re
leased ninety prisoners on Christmas
Eve and the day after Christmas sev
enty-five of them came back with a
police escort.
Turkey hash will last several days
yet-
RECORD OF WHAT A YEAR HAS WROUGHT
Notable Events During 1906 in the Principal Lines of Interest
DISASTERS.
January.
Blueflel
dred perron* perish In a burning mine
_ *t Akltn, Japan.
S—Tenement bouse* it Haveratraw, S. Y.,
fall iuto a clay pit. where (Ire complete*
rbe destruction. Twenty lire* io*t.
lft—Fire In West Hotel, Minneapolis, de
■troys nine lives.
18— Eighteen persons killed by a wine explo
sion nt Detroit, W. Va.
21—Eighteen negroes killed and twenty hurt
during n lire panic In a colored eharch
of
Brasilian turret ship Aquldaban Is suuk
by a powder magazine explosion on
board; 226 killed, Including three rear
admirals.
near Poteau, I. ..
31—Earthquake and tidal wave on the coast
of Colombia and Ecuador destroy hun
dreds of lives.
February.
6— Society islands devastated by a cyclone.
8—Mine explosion at Oak Hill, W. Va., kills
twenty-two men.
ft— Deep mine nt Johannesburg. Transvaal,
flooded; eighty-five men drown.
t—Dust explosion In a mine ut Maitland,
Colo., kills fifteen men.
March;
t—Tornado plows n-pnth through Meridinu.
Jllss.; twenty killed and $1,200,000 worth
of property swept away. Norwegian
fishing fleet scattered by storm; many
Imuts with their crews lost.
r~8now avalanche buries fishermen's huts
on Loftoten Islands; twenty-one perrons
killed and many Injured.
10— Has explosion lu Courrlere coal mine In
France kills 1,212 men.
11— Hteanier British King founders lu the
North Atlantic; twepty-sevcu men were
drowned.
16— Two Denver and Bio firnnde passenger
trains collide «nt Adobe, Colo., killing
twenty-two person*.
17— Formosa Island shaken by earthquake;
thousands of lives destroyed.
18— Sixteen men perish In Colorado ava
lanches.
Vesuvius In eruption; villages destroyed
LET THE RAILWAY COMMISSIONS INFORM US.
No more Important question has confronted the business and indus
trial interests of this country In many a year than the conditions of
freight and passenger transportation on the railroads.
We have had In part an explanation from t.ie railroads of these
conditions. We have all of us reached some conclusions of our own, and
have our own Individual views as to the causes of this unfortunate con
dition and'the remedy.
Is It not time now that the state and'Interstate railway commissions
to which we look for authentic Information and for effective remedy of
transportation evils, should give this matter some careful Investigation
and oblige the public with a statement from their standpoint of the
causes of the present demoralisation of otir railway systems and of the
remedy?
We are familiar enough with the lamentable conditions which pre
vail In the South and In the Southwest, and with the tremendous Incon
veniences which are entailed upon business and upon pleasure by these
conditions.
' Perhaps, however, yur troubles may be made to appear more heara
ble by a knowledge of the suffering that Is entailed upon our neighbors
nnd fellow citizens in the far Northwest.
It seems an amazing and almost monstrous thing that In the year of
our moat bountiful prosperity people with plenty of money In their pockets
should lie absolutely suffering with cold for lack of fuel. And yet this is
exactly the case In Kansas and the Northweat, 'where many well-to-do
people are in actual danger of freezing because the coal hauling service
of the railroads has broken down completely.
The Georgian Iraa planted Itself upon the plane of conservatism and
of helpfulness with every right thing which the railroads are doing or
may do to relieve these conditions. But we would really like to know
from some authoritative source whether or not it Is through Inefficient
management that manufacturers, merchants, farmers and shippers of
grain, live stock and cotton, from one end of the country to the other,
are suffering dally losses on account of the so-called car shortage, or
whether the railroads have become wholly and hopelessly Inadequate to
move the traffic of the country. ,
There Is no necessity to abuse or to vilify. Here abuse and ultra-
crttlclsm do no good. But perhaps It all the available sources of Informa
tion and remedy are brought together, we can by uniting our energies In
n helpful and cooperative way make at least some little progress In find
ing the remedy for a situation which Is growing appalling to the epuntry.
kills 280 men.
8ft—Thirteen miners nt Lens, France, escape
after being entombed twenty days.
April.
6—Hall at Magold, In the Black Forest of
Germany, collapses, killing forty-nine
persons.
6—VesuvhiL
and many Uvea lost.
14—Powder explosion In the turret of the
battleship Kearrorre kills nine men.
18— Ban Francisco partly destroyed by earth
quake and fire. .
lft- Congress appropriates $1,000,000 for the
^ relief of 8au Francisco.
22— Dust explosion kills twenty-two Japan
ese and Italians In a Colorado Fuel awl
Iron Company mine.
2ft—Tornado nearly destroys Bellevue, Tex.
eleven lives lost. •* ‘
< . May.
4—Two Pennsylvania railroad trains collide
at Clover Creek Junction, Pa., killing
ten persons.
19— Forest fires devastate parts of Wisconsin
and upper Michigan.
June.
Sr-Eleven killed In a trolley upset at Prov-
^ Idence. B. I.
ft—Explosion In a dynamite plant at Pe-
queu. Pa., blows eleveu perrons to frag
ments.
" * July.
1—English express train derailed at Salis
bury, killing twenty-seven perrons.
3— Buna way mine car near Portage, Pa.,
kills eleven men lieford It Is wrecked.
St. Michael* church, Hamburg, burns.
lft—Earthquake shakes up the Bio Grande
valley In New Mexico and Texas.
22—Renbonrd Air Line passenger train
wrecked by collision near Hamlet, N.
C.; several trainmen and many negroes
killed.
August.
4— Italian stenmship Sirlo wrecked by a
reef off Hornlugas lstund, Spain; 300
(•migrants drown.
lft-i’hllean cities of Hantlsgo. and Val
paraiso partly destroyed by earthquake
and fire.
September.
12—Twelve persons killed In a Canadian Pa
cific wreck near Sftdbury, Ont.
18—Typhoon at Hongkong destroys thou
sands of live* and damages much ship-
lft—fjreat Northern train wrecked at Grant
ham. Eng.; ten killed.
21—Explosion of n carload of dynamite at
Jellico, Tenn., kills twelve perron*.
24—lu the capsizing of n- boot In the river
Indus. India, 170 persons drown,
October.
3— Exploslou In the West Fork mine of
the Pocahontas Collieries Company,
Va., entombs seventy-five men.
ft—Mexican floods destroy 12J liven.
16-^French submarine »maf, with a ere
fourteen, disappears/
19—Hurricane devastates Havana, ports of.
Cuba, Florida and Central America; hun
dreds of lives destroyed.
26— Ten persons perish lu the burning of the
Chamber of Commerce hulhllug in Kan
sas City, Kail.
28—Pennsylvania electric train drops
through a drawbridge at Atlantic City
slxty-two drown.
November.
4— Existence of famine In Kiang-8u prov
Inee, China, reported.
ft— Hamilton, Ohio, visited by a $1,000,003
fire.
12—In a Baltimore und Ohio train collision
near Woodvllle, Ind., forty-seven pas
sengers i»erlsh.
18— Steamer Jeannle sinks after collision iir
Uuget sound; forty-two drowned.
27— Caimdian steamer J. H. Jones founders
In Georgian bay with twenty-eight per
sons.
£—Bohult factory at Annein. fieri
Mows up, killing or wounding 300 per
sons.
December.
1—Earthquake shakes Sicily.
7—Four (Undents nnd three citizens perish
in n Cornell Fnlverslty fire.
19— Mississippi steaiulioat W. T. Scovell
blows up nenr Lone Isitudlfig. Miss.; six
teen lives lost.
23—In a collision on the Minneapolis* St,
dent Roosevelt Issues n proclaim!
tlon asking aid for Chinese famine suf
ferers.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
THE SPUR
(Copyright, 1906, by Arnerlcan-Jnurnal-Examlncr.
I naked the rock beside the road what loy existence lent.
It answered, "For a mlllon years my heart has been content.”
I asked the truffle-seeking swine, a* rooting by he went.
"IVhat Is the keynote of your life?” He grunted out, "Content."
I asked a slave, who tolled and sang, Just whst his singing meant.
He plodded on his changeless way, and said, ”1 am content."
t naked n plutocrat of greed, on what his thoughta were bent.
He chinked the silver In Ills purse, and said, "I am content.”
I asked the mighty forest tree from where Its force was sent.
Its thousand branches spoke as one, and snld, “From discontent.”
I asked the message speeding on. by what great law was rent
God's secret from the waves of space. It said, "From discontent."
I asked an Angel, looking down on earth with gaze Intent,
How man should rise to larger growth. Quoth he, -'Through discon
tent.”
A CHRISTMAS RE VERY
Where the Georgia Delegation
Live in Washington.
SENATORS.
Augustus O. Bacon, 1767 Oregon
avenue.
A. S. Clay, the Normandie.
CONGRESSMEN.
W. C. Adamson, the Oxford.
C. L. Bartlett, the Shoreham.
Thomas M. Bell, the Iroquois.
W. G. Brantley, the Chapin.
T. W. Hardwick, the Shoreham.
W. M. Howard, the Bancroft.
Gordon Lee, {he Shoreham.
E. B. Lewis, ths Metropolitan.
J. W. Overstreet, the Metropoli
tan.
L. F. Livingston, 1916 Biltmors
street.
J. M. Griggs, the Metropolitan.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
DECEMBER 27.
A bogus Kris Kringle Imbibed too
those dark horses champing their bits freely and landed before s Pbllsdel- Sfoner im"iy
(Dedicated to tho4e who are doomed to smoke the cigars their wives
selected for them as a Christmas gift with acknowledgments to Kipling’s
pre-nuptial revery.)
Open the new cigar box, now for a four-round bout.
For this Is my Christmas present—the brand which my wife picked out.
She knows that I'm stuck on Havanas—that I'm keen for a good cheroot;
So now I suppose I must smoke them, or else she’ll think I'm a brute.
Open the new cigar box—facing my wife's fond glance;
I don't like to make her angry, but 1 don't like to take the chance.
There's peace In a Laranga and a Henry Clay, you'll agree,
But the looks of this "Bulldog Special" don’t make any big hit with me.
She says she knew I would like them, for the band was so dainty and blue,
With a touch of scarlet and purple and a dark yellow streak running thru.
And I haven't the heart to tell her—not even In manner quite bland—
That I smoke a cigar for tobacco, and NOT for Its beautiful band.
Here goes—and I light with a shudder—I feel that my hair Is on Are;
And the wheels In my hend start to whirling as the smoke dances higher and
higher.
It looks like a skln-dlseased sausage; It smells so like shoeing a horse; ■
Ilut I see In her face no relenting—I catch In her eye no remotse.
I puff—It twists nnd unravels—I cough und I choke and I sneexe—
While the taste In my mouth much resembles a mixture of onions and cheese.
If I only knew what It was made of! I detect a strong odor of dope:
There's a thick blend or cabbage and ether wrapped up in the colls of a rope,
«h, why did I take up tobacco? Oh, why did I learn how to smoke?
A woman Is only a woman—but her cigars are a Joke.
—Grantland Rice, In The Cleveland News.
phia magistrate. "Come down from the
North Pole, eh?” snorted the magts-
.Whatever the result finally Senator
Fpraker will know he has had a fight
when that Brownsville affair Is set
tled.
Maybe Andrew Carnegie has finally
solved the problem of how to keep
from dying rich. He says he Is going
Into politics. (
trate. “Gueqs your steeds were about
eight ponies of brandy, all right, all
right." Sounds like one of Recorder
Broyles' remarks. ,
THE JAPANESE PERIL.
Once upon a time as a Southern rail
way passenger train rolled Into the
station exactly on schedule time—Say,
ain’t that a fairy story proper?
Getting the mitten” doesn't always
mean a disappointed lover. A Maine
girl gave a pair of “mittens" to n Glou
cester fisher lad and got him for a'
husband.
While one must recognize the justice
of the president's main contention, that
Justice should be done Japan, his thrwit
of force seems gratuitous. The courts
have not yet passed upon the constitu
tionality of the law under which San
Francisco Is acting, there Is no rebel
lion or serious disorder in California,
and the governor of that state has
made no suggestion of an Inability to
maintain an order which Is not even
threatened. The president may
playing a deep diplomatic game. His
vigorous promise of intervention has
certainly pteaseil Jaiian, and if, a* has
been surmised, a treaty Is In prepara
tion looking to setting limits upon the
immigration of Japanese coolies Into
the United States and-of American
workmen Into Japan. It may have been
| dictated by wise policy, ft Is to be
hoped that such a treaty Is to be
something In the near future. Any one
who has watched the recent high
handed policy of Japan, has seen Us
high-handed appropriation of Korea,
and the antt-forelgn effect of her tute
lage of China, cannot look without
apprehension at the Inundation of Jap
anese now sweeping Into the Philip
pines nnd HawalL—Editorial In The
World Today for January.
Mutual Life policy-holders told Dis
trict Attorney Jerome that there was
no use of barring the stable afttg- the
hone had escaped.
Better begin right now practicing
writing It 1907.
Some Officials Still Away.
OUR MURDEROU8 INDUSTRIALISM
If the United Slates were to engage an
nually !u wnr resnttlng tn *. loan of 550,-
40/ Injured and tilted. fhe entire ,-rwnjfrr
would noon rise tn protest ngnlnst such
»en*elt-M loss of human life.
Ilut. nnknowii lo the nvernue rltiten, n
pen refill warfare, entailing a Ins* of over
s half million lu killed am! Injured ig r-
hack on duly Wednesday morning after
one day’s rest. Several others
away for the rest of the week,
ernor Terrell enjoyed Ids "
iiuully lielllg waged In this eoonlry today,
. ,— J** of et n'inuing for some
his att.ncndone l*i
*truffg r
The rank ami Mr of the tinny iftret t-
'I
..ml fives prowl-. ......
j time to rone. Thl* stt.itefol*
from tin* nfei»*e utrifit’* of
Many of the capitol officials were I Indutrtsl snnr,.«.
_. . i ~ j,,
-nt will be ly cues god In It I* . nutmmed of the sturdy
-w Anr I ftmX.tn artisan, while indirectly It of.
.j OOT '|feeti more-the family anil-do
Christmas prudent neon his eff*w*is f»n suiqmrr.—C. II.
1714—George Wliltefleld, founder of Culvlula
tic Methodist*, born. Died September
30, 1770.
1811—More than sixty persons perished In
burning theater nt Richmond. Va.
1828— Rowland Stephenson, English banker
nud meinlier of parliament, absconded
with 61,000.000.
1831—Roger B. Taney, of Mtrylsnd, became
Attorney-General of United States.
1847—Duke or Norfolk born.
1858—Now .Adelphl theater, London, oner
1862—General Sherman attacked Confer...
ate works about six miles from Vicks
burg.
1892-Corner stone laid for Cathedral of St.
* John the Dtrtne, New York etty.
THE YEAR’S PROcIsSlON,
Borne who would view earth’s many
regions, roam.
By toilsome Journey, over land and
sea,
1 who. than they, am wlaffr, rest at
home,
The while the world bring* all Its
climes to me.
Comes Joyous Spring with wood and
field abloom:
.The thrifty bees seek out their hon
eyed store;
The orchard paths are spiced with rare
. perfume;
Fair Florida la smiling at my door.
The buttercups befleck the hllla with
gold,
The bluejay calls, the lilsty robin
sings;
I look across the landscape and, be
hold!
The birds have brought the South-
land on their wings.
Behind the Spring with her soft ver-
durlng rain,
Comes droughty Summer, mellowing
the lands.
Until I dream the fields of goldetvgraln
Are copies of Sahara's burning sands.
The Autumn brings the fair Italian
sklqs,
So sweetly blue, so boundless In ex
panse;
And In niy vineyard where young Bac
chus dyes
His purple grapes are glints of sun
ny France.
Then Winter comes,-and In my snug
domain
Is left no sign of lily or of rose.
And where, In Summer, dreamed a
poppled Spain,
Lies Labrador beneath her drifting
snows.
So, year by year, the seasons bring to
me
Their many moving pictures that un
roll
In ever-changtng views that I may see
The Earth from Its equator to the
pole.
—Nixon Waterman In Appleton's.
SOUTHERN PROPERTY r VALUE9.
As a matter of record of Increasing
prosperity In the South, the following
table of cetlmated true value of prop
erty there In 1900 and 1904, compiled by
the Manufacturers' Record from n bul
letin of the national census bureau Is
of interest:
1100
Alabama. .6 774,682,478
Arkansas. . 604,216,211
Florida. . . 655,742,969
Georgia. .. 966,000,450
Kentucky. 1.665,160,7t«
*18,151.008
.817,372.958
8*7.581.646
*81,982,120
485,678.048
I GOSSIP
By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER.
New York. Dec. 27.—When Mi-*
Pauline Morton becomes Mrs. J. Hop
kins Smith In New York city her at
tendants will Include two Washington
belles, Miss Mathilda Townsend end
Miss Katherine Elkin*. Miss "Polly"
seems to cling to Washington life, foi
she spends about a third of her tlin<
In the capital. She Is a favorite with
Mrs. Roosevelt. The wedding will be a
record-breaker. Cor loads of persons
from Chicago and Washington will
come here, • ,»
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish gave a dinner .
last night for a number of guests, In
cluding Mrs. M. W. Wilson and Lady 1
Stafford. Christmas decorations adorn
ed the table. In th6 center of which
was a large white tree made to look as
If Jt were covered with Ice, and at the
corners of the table were small Christ
mas trees. i
Cabinet members’ wives are already
arranging for the list of women who
will assist them at their reception on
New Year’s day. Secretary and Mrs.
Root will give their first diplomatic
banquet .on that day, when out-ot-town
guests will be with them.
Certain of the new fur Jackets are be
ing greedily snapped up. for they are
decidedly different from the run iil
such garments. They come from
Paris. The new style is a cross 1 ' be
tween a gray coat and an Etoir land
fits snugly In the back to the wlalsf
line. The hairs are quite as long! as
lynx, but coarser and with no sheen.
“1 believe that Plerpont Morwin lfus
sold the furriers some of his English
sheep dogs." said ft girl who was puz
zling over It yesterday.
The' president aqd Mrs. Roosevelt,
accompanied by several children, will
go to Pine Knot, Mrs. Roosevelt's cot
tage, In Albemarle county, Virginia, on
Thursday, to be gohe until Monday 1 ,
when It Is Inexorable that the president
shall hold the annual New Year’s re
ception.
Stealing a march on tier parents, aft- ]
er her plan of eloping to Washington I
had been nipped In the bud. Miss Lulu 1
Moseley Ready, daughter of Mr. and I
Mrs. C. E. Ready was married to Wil
liam Burton Hicks, In Rlkhmand, Va.,
yesterday afternoon, Rev. Robert For
syth, pastor of St. Pauls Episcopal
church, officiating.
When the young woman came down
to breakfast yesterday morning het
mother discovered that the girl was
wearing her wedding gown underneath
her outer dress. Declaring that she
should not marry, her father and two
brothers. went to the several railway
stations to prevent the possibility of an
elopement.
The girl and Hicks learned early of
this, and gathered a few friends about
them, procured a marriage license and
were quietly wedded, here. The fathei
and brothers were then advised that
they might as well forego their cold
watch at the stations.
Official statements from Mrs. James
O. Blaine, In Washington, announce
that she will soon become tho bride ol
Paul S. Pearsall, of this city, a lieuten
ant with the Rough Riders during the
war with Spain.
Mrs. Blaine, whose maiden name was
Martha Hlchborn, secured a divorce In
South Dakota several days ago.. Her
husband was the eldest son of th
known statesman. i
Pearsall, who possesses an Ind'
ent fortune, Is a well-kmswn flgur
society and belongs to some ol
most exclusive clubs. He has a.,
home at 178 Madison avenue and
beautiful summer place at Black Rock,
oh the sound near Bridgeport. 11
Mrs. Blaine received her decree at
Yankton, S. Dak., December 22. As
soon as It waa granted ahe departed
for Washington, where she Joined her
parents, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Hlch
born.
The young woman and the states
man’s son were married In Washing
ton In June. 1901. It was one of the
events of the season. Two years later
there were rumors of a disagreement
between the couple.' Finally Ml
Blaine acknowledged the estrffngemei
and a short time aftet wards brough]
her action.
Bhe was Blaine’s second wife,
first was Miss Marie Nevlns, of Columl
bus, who Is now Mrs. W. T. Bull, wifi
of the noted surgeon. She dlVorcei
him at Sioux Falls, In 1892. It' wai
here the second Mrs. Blaine lived for|
several months that she might acquire
the necessary residence In the state.
rBIG
I KODAK
Louisiana.
Maryland.
Mies. . .
N. Caro. .
S. Caro. ,
Tenn. . .
Texas. .
Virginia.
W. Va. .
. *56,872.000
. 2.622,151,831
. 1,102,309,696
. *39,652,651
1904
* 965,014,261
806,007,072
481,409.200
1,107,445,671
1.527.486,230
1.032,229,006
1.511,486,172
688,249.022
842.072,218
585,853,222
1.104.223.97*
2.836,322,033
1.287.970,180
340,000,149
Total. ..*12.934.333,276 115.622.671,285
The Increase in values during the
past two year* has been quite It* r rc»i
as the Increase between 1900 and 19.14
the Sjuth is uow
BUSINESS
\\V niitlciiMtiNl
wile of Kodak*. «
The Ilrowule Kodak
Hose* wero son* long Ih»-
fon» emylNwy wn» ,*tip-
piled, .ana Itn* wile of Ko
dak* nnd annplle* waa sim
ply unprecedented.
It simply
•L-.-lf.lr 111*. **
■how* that'
plrtnrc-r.ifc-
lug, I* ouo of tho u»o*t
foRoluntlng nniu*om?nt* In
I he world. I
A l»ig order of new ko-
ilnfc* nnd Ktipplie* arrived
Indnr,, *u;(I wo are rond.v
to supply every want In
the kodak lino.
Tbie pact few tiny* hs*
Mi fino troalhof for the
kodnktr. und \re have been
nearly Kunmptd with mu-
nteiir. fliitatiliig work: bow
er or. ,w*» are keeping our
whola
Kodak* art cheap—
II np to X’.*—and w4 glad
ly iij;rnet yon how to
|(ro|^-r|r kae one. It**
hi ay, A ohilti can do It.
Agent* for the fhinon*
Kantmnn fcoatnk*.
A. K. HAWKESCO.
THE KODAK HOUSE.
11 Whitehall Street,