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THE ATLANTA GEORQLAN. ■ I'RSDAT. DECEMBER 27, 1W THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN cub rcypic smm. uttv f. 1. .'till, PtWIiBtr. Published Every Afternoon • 'Except Sunday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY, it S West Aleheme St., Atlenu. Be. Subiertptlon Rate*. one Tear ,.HM Six Month* *•*} Three Month* IS* By Carrier. Per Weep.. Tetcpuooee connecting alt departmenta. I.onx dletanre terminal*. reerntatlree for all territory outal Georgia. Chicago office Tribune Bldg. York — ~ “ 7 - If roil bare any trouble getting THE GEORGIAN, telephone the Circulation s.?e5 f< Tefejgi!»s:r'«er3& ,,r M , r. , 3; Atlanta <401, It I* deelrahle that pit communica tion* Intended for publication In THB GEORGIAN be limited to 449 word! In length. It 1* Imperatlee that they be •alenwl. a* an evidence of good faith, though the name* will lie withheld If requeeted. Rejected mauuecrlpte will not bo returned unleaa etampa are rent lor the ptirpoee. doe* It prlat whIAky or any I 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,