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whisky or soy liquor sill.
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end electric tlxbt plant*. es It now
owns Its interwork*. other cities do
SftfVB CUTJe
be dees et oece. The Grorgtes be-
lleree thet If street rsllweye cee be
epensted sracrssf ully by Rorepees
cities, ee they ere. there le oo food
why thin cannot he ee operated
But we co not bellere tele cee
• sew. sod It mey be some years
we era reedy fer so bid ee an-
lag. Still Atlanta ebould set IK
(ere le That direction NOW.
How Georgia and Alabama Grow.
A striking presentation anil an ex
cellent advertisement of the Industrial
development and construction prog
ress In Georgia and Alabama Is given
In this week’r Issue of The Georgia
aad Alabama Industrial Index, In
which appears a concise summary of
advance reports printed In The index
during the last half of 1MM.
During that period The Index has
reported for Alabama 222 new corpo
rations with a total minimum capital
Stock of 110,5(2,200 and for Georgia
2917, with a total minimum capital
stock of 110,778,900. These flgurc . do
not Include banks and railroads. Oth
er totals of new Industries and con
et ruction given arp as follows:
Banka
lllnurrlre IB
Ice ptnuts f
l.lxbt plant* IX
l.aoibrr pinnla 43
OH mllla 7 «
I'onrsr plant" 14
llallrnstl* 7
Electric mllwaya ja
StrnmlNNtt linen X
Telephone linen.. 17
t’otinn mill* menu I.
• 'Mina mllla fenlarxem’ini. 4
Knlulax mllla II
I ’llIIillIIc rnctorle" 3
Ala. Iln. Total.
Brick pTauts....
iVinent ptanta X
racking plnnta
Ksrtlllin-r plnnta t
I'uruneea 4
Psqadrii-s 5
Gna puma 4
t'operate block plnnla l
Lass, Iris* ... i
Kurnltura (aeiorlea
Naval atnrea .plnnta r,
New urining opera Ilona ... pi
Machine aknpa. I.. 6
mfc; 1
Three alorlea 37
WBRStt::::::::::::::::: 5
alt ttorlea l
Seven atorlra 1
Eight alorlea x
Tea ttorlea 3
fifteen atortec I
t'owrt bouaen a
Jalla
Meet bridge*..
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Taring eoaatraetlon
waterworks 13 i,
Of this summary The Index says:
."At large and significant aa are
these figures, they convey but partial
Idea of the great development In the
two statei during the pant hair year.
Many Industrial plants, comparative
ly small In number and varied tn char
acter, are not Included In the above
summary. Neither do the figure* In
themselves Indicate the extent of In
vestment. For Instance, the three ce-
meat plants reported represent total
Investments of nearly |3.0f)0,000. In
business buildfnga nothing smaller
than a three-story structure U given
front the many of smaller slxe report
ed in The Index, though many of the
latter are costly, aa in the case or a
3160,000 one-story beak building pro
jected In a Georgia city."
A Philadelphia paper runs half a
column headed "Christmas Tragedies
In the South." A full page Is devoted
to the same kind of occurrences In
Philadelphia.
Those 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 lit years. Is
Mill complacently smoking hei pipe In
ier New York home. Just cited aa an
Incident of Interest and not to (mint a
Moral.
One can now get telephone connec
tion with a moving train. Irate pas-
rangers down thin way on related
.rains will probably avail themselves
>Mhe opportunity to call up the head
1 say some real tuUnil
A Pittsburg paper, says that the
Smokey City la the moat God-fearing,
moral place In the country. , News,
that, sure. From a recent perusal of
papers people bad Just the other kind
of Impreaslon about It.
Here’s another scandal for Senator
Bailey to combat. Item in a paper
says "Senator Bailey ha* purchased
the fast Miss Edgar." It la proper
hbwever, to explain that “Mies Edgar”
Is a race horse.
ANSWER “THE TECH'S” APPEAL NOW.
We trust that no good citizen who loves Atlanta will fall to consider
the appeal which The* Georgian makes for Atlanta’s great and famous
school.
The School of Technology must have the two'adjacent lota which It
needs for absolutely essential buildings and enlargement.
It must have those lots before next Tuesday noon, or the opportunity
will be lost.
The Georgian has backed its faith by its works and has given aa liber
ally aa It could to the cquM. If The Georgian's capacity was equal to ita
inclinations we would put our hands Into our pockets and contribute the
wholt amount rather than hava the Tech miss this rapidly passing oppor
tunity. *
Wo are proud of the Technological School. Wo are proud of tho fame
it had two years ago. We are proudor of the much greater fame it has to
day. There It no school like It In the South. There are few schools as
good anywhere. We* like to boast of it when we go abroad. We like to use
it as the argument to Induce now 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 auecosa In the world. We are proud of the splendid rein
forcement which It brings to the scientific and industrial davelopmont of
tho city and the South. We are proud of the princely contribution of one
hundred thousand dollars which It makes every year to the pay rolls of At
lanta. \
Wa don’t wish tho Tech to stop growing. We don't wlah our groat
school to bo hindered and retarded, for lack of room, or to bt refused by
the city which It honors when it state* a plain necessity Ilka this.
Atlanta Is rich enough to'glva the $44100 needed by the Tech with
out a moment’s hesitation. It Is rich enough to do this If It were a poorer
city than it la. It la rich enough at any time to do It. It it especially
rich enough now in thla period of superb prosperity, and tn the full
flush of thla radiant and ovtrflowlng aeason.
Now, citize‘ns of Atlanta, you who road theta lines and know them
to bo true—you who lovt and honor Goorgla’a great School and Atlanta’s
chlaf ornament, follow tho Impulse that la In your mind straight and man
fully to your pockat, and sand a contribution aa liberal aa your purie can
make It, to thla hour of tho Tech’s opportunity and necessity.
Don't wait, but do ft now. Do It heartily and do It quickly.
You will not have done a worthier thing in all this holiday.
LET THE RAILWAY COMMISSIONS INFORM US.
No morn Important question has confronted the business and Indus
trial Interests of this country In many a year than the conditions of
freight aud passenger tramqioitatioii on the railroads.
We have had In part an explanation from tue railroads of these
conditions. We have all of us reached some conclusions of our own. and
have onr own Individual views as to the causes of this unfortunate con-
ditlon and the remedy.
■ Is It not time now thnt the state and Interstate railway commission*
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 demoralization of our railway systems and of the
remedy?
We are familiar enough with the lamentable conditions which pre
vail in the South anil In the Southwest, and with the tremendous Incon
veniences which are entalled ii|>on business and upon pleasure by these
conditions. v
Perhaps, however, onr troubles may lie made to appear more beara
ble by a knowledge of the suffering that Is entailed upon our neighbors
and fellow citizens in the fy Northwest.
It seems sn amazing and almost monstrous thing that in the year of
our most bountiful prosperity people with plenty of money in their pockets
should he absolutely suffering with cold for lack of fuel. And yet this Is
exactly the caae In Kansas and the Northwest, where many well-to-do
lieopls are In actual danger of freezing beeause the coal hauling service
of the railroad* has broken down completely.
The Georgian has planted Itself upon the plane of conaervatism 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 aud shippers of
grain, live slock and cotton, from one end of the country to the Other,
are suffering dally losses on account of 'the so-called ear shortage, or
whether the rallmad* have become wholly aud hopelessly Inadequate to
move the traffic of the country.
There Is no necessity to abuse or to vilify. Here abuse aud ultra-
crltlclsm 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
a helpful and cooperative way make at least .some little progress in And-
Ing the remedy for n situation which Is growing appalling to the country.
GEORGIA GRANITE AND MARBLE FOR THE P0ST0FFI0E.
Let It be understood that the Georgian la taking no aides In the con
troversy between the marble and granite material to be used In the
splendid building which Is to house Atlanta's next poatofllce.
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 Georgian stands Impartial and admiring between these two state
ly and splendid products of our imiierlal state. Georgia Is rich both lu
granite and in marble for the construction of any building no matter
what Its slxe or Importance may be. whether for public use or for the
gratification of private taste. Our granite quarries are rich about us.
In the splendid county of DeKall^ we have two mountains, one large and
one small, made of granite, that la lit to build the cities of the world. In
Plckeus and In other counties to the north of us we have marble whose
itueneaa 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 ot them are necessary for the public bulldlnga of the
future. We sincerely trust that Senators Bacon and Clay and Congressman
Livingston will diligently see to It when the material I* chosen for
the construction of the government’ postofflee In Atlanta, that the granite
of Ita walls and the marble of Ita finishing! 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 o9other cities and other states. The granite of
DeKalb 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 tn as many states.
RECORD OF WHAT A YEAR HAS WROUGHT
Notable Events During 1906 in the. Principal Lines of Interest
DISASTERS.
January.
exoloslou lu the Con Ida le mine neai
Him* field, w. Vh.. kills 21 men. One bun
urea persons perlsb In n burning mine
st Akltit. Japan.
I-Ttwawt house* st flsTerstraw, X. V.,
fall Into n elsjnplt. where lire complete*
*£• destruction. Twenty live* lost.
19—Flre In West Hotel. Minneapolis, de
stroys nine llres.
18—Eighteen persons-killed by a mine expip*
slim nt Detroit W. V«.
Eighteen negcoes killed and twenty hurt
during « lire pnule In a colored church
of Philadelphia.
22— Brasilian turret ahlp Aquidahan Is sunk
by a powder magazine explosion on
lionnl; 215 killed, Tnrlndlng three, rear
admirals.
23— Steamer Valencia goes nabore on Vnn-
courer Islnud const: 118 persons drmtn.
24— Fourteen lives lost In n mine explosion
near Pntcati. I. T.
31—hnrtbquuke and ttdnl wave ou the const
of ColomhtA and Ecuador destroy bun
dreds of lives.
February.
^Society Islands devastated by n cyclone.
*—Mine explosion nt Oak Hill. W. Va.. kills
twenty-two men.
-Deep mine nt Johannesburg. Transvaal,
flooded: eigbty-flve men drown.
Miss.; twenty
of property i ,
fishing fleet scattered by storm: many
ept away. Norwegian
bunts with their crews lost.
Suow avalanche buries fishermen's huts
on Loftolen Islands; twenty-one persons
killed nnd many Injured.
10— Has explosion in fonrrlere coal mine In
Frame kills 1.212 men.
11— Mtenmet* British King founders In the
North Atlantic: twenty-seven men were
drowned.
Two Denver and l(lo Grande passenger
trains collide at Adobe, t'olo., killing
twenty-two persons.
17—Formosa Islnud shaken by earthquake;
22—Gas exposition In Century mine. W.
Va., kills twenty-six men.
28—Mine explosion nt Takasblma, Japan,
kills 2S0 men.
30r-Thlrtee» miners at I#enz. France, escape
after being entombed twenty days.
April.
S-Ilall at Magold, In the Black' Forest of
Germans. collapses, killing forty-uine
8—Vesuvius fu eruption; villages destroyed
nnd many lives lost.
14— Powder exnloslon In the turret of the
battleship Kearsarge kills nine meu.
18—8au Francisco partly destroyed by earth
quake nnd tire,
Congress appro ,
relief of Ban Francisco.
22—Dust explosion kills twenty-two Japan
ese and Italians In a Colorado Fuel and
Irou Company mine.
28—Tornado nearly destroys Bellevue, Tex'.;
eleven lives lost.
May.
4—Tvfo IVnnsrlvahln railroad trains collide
at Clover Creek Junction. l»a.. killing
ten persons.
18— Forest fires devastate parts of Wisconsin
and tipper Mlchlgsn.
June.
3— Eleven killed In a trolley upset at Prov
idence, R. I.
9—Explosion In a dynamite plant at I’e-
qnca. Pa., blows eleven persous to frag
ments.
July.
1—English express tralu derailed at Salis
bury. killing tweuty-seveu persons.,
3— Runaway mine car uear Portage. Pa..
kills eleven men before It Is wrecked.
Xt. Michaels church, Hamburg, bums.
16— Earthquake shakes' up the Itio Grande
* valley In Now Mexico and Texas.
22—Henlionrd Air IJae passenger train
wrecked by collision near Hamlet. N.
P.; several trainmen aud mauy negroes
8 killed.
August.
4— Italian steamship 8lrlo wrecked by a
reef off Horulngas island. Spain; 300
emigrants drown.
18— Chilean cities of Santiago and Val
paraiso partly destroyed by earthquake
nnd fire.
September.
12—Tu »lve persons killed in a Canadian Pa
cl fir wreck near Sudbury, Out.
18—Typhoon nt Hougkoug deatroys thou
sands of lives and damages much ship-
is-6'S, Northern train wrecked at Grant
ham. Kug.; ten killed.
21— Explodou of n carload of dyuamite at
Jelllco, Trail., kills twelve persons.
24—In the capsizing of n Insit lu the rlv
Indus. Imils. 170 persons drowu.
27— Disastrous burrlcsife? sweeps through the
Honthern states from the gulf.
October.
3— Explosion iu the West Fork mine of
the Pocahontas Collieries Company, W
Va.. eutombn seveuty-flve men.
9—Mexican floods destroy 122 llres.
18— French subuiarlue lioct. with a ere
fourteen, disappears.
19— Hurricane devastates Havana, parts of
Cuba. Florida nud Central America; linn
dreds of lives destroyed.
28— Ten persons jicriih In the homing of the
Chamber of Commerce bulldlug lu Kan
sas City. Kau.
28— Pennsylvania electric train drops
through n drawbridge at Atlautic City
’ sixty-two drown.
Novsmbsr.
4—Existence of famine lu Klang-Su prov
ince. China, reported.
8—Hamilton. Ohio, visited by 1* 81.000,000
Are.
12— la a Baltimore and Ohio train collision
near Wot>dville. IimI.. forty-seven pas*
seugers perish.
llug or wounding 900 per-
'—Canadian steamer J. H. Jones founders
In Georgian bay with twenty-eight |ier-
sons.
28— Itobult factory at Auneui. Germany,
blows up, klllli * ““ —
sons.
Decsmbar.
1—Earthquake shakes Sicily.
7—Four studeuU and three cltlxeus perlsb
in a Cornell Pulveralty Are.
19—Mississippi Hteamlioat W. T. -Xcovell
blows up near Done Landing. Miss.; six
teen live* bm.
23—In a collision on the Minneapolis. 8t.
President Roosevelt Issues n proclama
tion asking aid for Chinese famine suf
ferers.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
THE SPUR
(Copyright. 1906. by Amerlcan-Journal-Examiner.
'I asked tho rock beside tho road what Joy existence lent.
It answered, "For a Million years my heart has been content.’*
I asked the truffle-necking swine, as rooting by he went,
“What la the keynote of your IJfe?” . He grunted out, “Content.*’
I Asked a slave, who tolled and sang. Just what his singing meant.
He plodded on his chnngelesa way, and said, “I am content.’*
I asked a plutocrat of greed, on what his thoughts were bent.
He chinked the silver In his 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 said, “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 the marble, where the works of God and man were blent.
What brought the statue from the block. It answered “Discontent.”
I asked an Angel, looking down on ean|h with gaze Intent,
How man ahould rise to larger growth. Quoth ho, “Through discon
tent.”
Where the Georgia Delegation
Live in Washington.
SENATORS.
Augustus u. Bacon, 1757 Oregon
avenue.
A. S. Clay, the Normandie.
, CONGRESSMEN.
W. C. Adamson, the Oxford.
C. L. Bartlett, the Shoreham.
Thomas M. Bell, the Iroquois.
\V. G. Brantley, the Chapin.
T. \V, Hardwick, the Shoreham.
W. M. Howard, the Bancroft.
Gordon Lee, the Shoreham.
E. B. Lents, the Metropolitan.
J. \V. Overstreet, the Metropoli
tan.
L. P. Livingston, 1919 Blltmore
street.
J. M. Griggs, the Metropolitan.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
DECEMBER 27.
A CHRISTMAS REVERY
(Dedicated to those who are doomed to amoke the cigar* their wfves
selected for them as t 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 Havanan—that I’m keen fra good cheroot;
So now I suppose I must smoke them, or else she'll think I'm a brute.
Open tlie new cigar box—facing iny wife's fond glance;
I don't like to make her angry, but I den't like to take the chance.
There’s peace 111 a Laranga and a Henry Clay, you'll agree.
But the looka of thla "Bulldog Special” don't make any big hit with me.
She says she knew I would like them, fur the band was so dainty and blue.
With a touch of scarlet and purple and a, dark yellow streak running thru.
Amt 1 haven't the heart to tell her—not even In manner quite bland—
That I smoke a cigar for tobacco, and NOT for Us beautiful band.
Here goes—and I light,with a shudder—I feel that my hair Is on (Ire:'
And the wheels In my head start to whirling as the smoke dances higher und
higher.
I puff—it twists and unravels—I cough and I choke and I sneeze—
While the taste In my mouth much resembles a mixture of onions and cheese.
If I only knew what tt was made of! I detect a strong oilor of dope:
There's a thick blend of cabbage and ether wrapped up In tlie colls of a rope.
Oh. why did I take up t'nbacco? Oh, why did I learn how to smoke?
A woman Is only a woman—but her cigars are a joke.
—Grnntland Rice, In The Cleveland News.
phla magistrate. "Come doyn from the
North Pole, eh?" snorted the magls-
Whatever the result flndlly Senator
Foraker will know he has had a light
when that Brownsville affair Is set
tled.
The Washington Herald declines to
go off after fad*, even If fathered by
President Roosevelt and Mr. Carnegie.
It stand by the old "blue back speller.”
In the tall timber. Is the Hon. Thomas
Campbell, the outgoing gorerror; ex-
Governor Joseph D. Savers, ex-Senator
Roger Q. Mills, and Representatives
Burleson and Burges*.
This Is quite a hopeful Held, but irar-
haps If might Ira well not to Ira too
hopeful until Senator Bailey's caae Is
dls posed V>f.
Mail unusually heavy,” reads an
Item in an exchange. No. not welgh-
Ing-in time to fix the railroads' com
pensation for carrying mall, but Juat
the holiday rush.
If Senator Bailey should be turned
down by the legislature of Texas, It
lets down the bars for a vigorous and
hopeful field of “probabilities," each
of whom Is ready and willing to as
sume the responsibility of represent
ing Ihc great slate of Texas In the
senate o' the United States. Among A bogus Kris Kringle Imbibed too
those dark horses champing their bits freely and landed before a Phitadel
A Richmond police magistrate re
leased ninety prisoners on Christmas
Eve and the day after Christinas sev
enty-live of them came back with a
police escort.
Turkey hash will last several days
yet.
Maybe Andrew Carnegie baa finally
solved the problem of bow to keep
from dying rich. He says he Is going
Into politics.
(rate. "Guess your steeds were about
eight pontes of brandy, all right, all
right.” Sounds like one of Recorder
Broyles' remarks.
Once upon a time as a Bout hem 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 a Glou
cester Usher lad and got him for a'
husband.
Mutual Life policy-holders told Dis
trict Attorney Jerome that there was
no use of barring the stable after the
horse had escaped.
Better begin right now practicing
writing Jt 1*07.
Sams Officials Still Away.
.Many of the capitol officials were
back on duty Wednesday morning after
one day's rest. Several others will be
away for the rest of the week. Oov
THE JAPANESE PERU..’
While one must recognize the Justice
of the president's main contention, that
Justice should be done Japan, his threat
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 Ih California,
anil the governor of that stale 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 pleased Japan, and If, as has
been surmised, a treaty Is ih prepara
tion looking lo setting limits upon the
Immigration of Japanese coolies Into
the United States und nt American
workmen into Japan, it may have been
dictated by wise policy, u Is to be
hoped that such a t-eaty la to be
something in the near .‘uture. Any one
who has watched the recent high
handed policy of Japan, has seen Its
high-handed apnroprlation of Korea,
and the antl-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 Hawaii.—Editorial In The
World Today for January-.
OUR MURDEROUS INDUSTRIALISM
If the Cubed aisles were lo eagafo *n
nually la war malting la a toes of S50,
000 Injured and killed, tbe entire eoontry
would soon rise lu protest against surL
senseless lots of tinman life.
Rut. unknown to the average ettlsrn. s
prneefnl wwrfsre, euisUIng a loss of over
bslf stllllon In killed aud Injured le sn-
islly being.waged In this eonntrr today,
amt elves promise of eontiuning for some
time to rome. This stupendous loss results
from the 'ntense*stngg!e of 29.0iu.en) wage.
Iv engaged In It la composed of Hie slurdy
«w«y lor me rest or me ween, uov- p“i. iwo'S^iiov^l'ie 'famlK^'onb-de
ernor Terrell enjoyed his Christmas • pendent apes Ms efforts for euppurt.-c. u.
dinner quietly at the mansion. Mark. Is The World Today, for January.
ethodlsts, horn. Died tteptemtier
30. 1770.
1811—More ttuin sixty person* perished In
burning i hunter nt ttlehiuoiid. Va.
1828—Rowland Stephenson, English banker
anil uiemlier of parliament, aharondetl
with 81.000.000.
1831—Roger II. Tnnry, of Maryland. Iieem
Attorney-lien,-nil of United State#.
1847—linko nr Norfolk horn. /
1S5S—New Ailelphl theater, Loudon, opem
1862—General Sherman attacked Fonfodu
ate works about tls mile# (rom Vicks
burg.
1892-Corner stone laid for Cathedral of 8t.
John the Divine, New York city.
THE~Y~iAR'i~~PROCE83ION.
Borne who would view earth's many
regions, roam,
By toilsome Journey, over land, and
I who, than they-, am wiser, rest at
home,
The while the world brings all Ita
climes to me.
Comes joyous Spring with wood and
Held abloom;
The thrifty- bee* seek out their hon
eyed store;
The orchard paths are spiced with rare
perfume;
Fair Florida Is smiling at my door.
The buttercups bedeck th* hills with
gold.
The bluejay calls, the lusty robin
sings;
I look across th* landscape snd, be
hold!
The birds have brought the South
land on their wings.
Behind the Spring with her soft ver-
durlng rain.
Come* droughty Summer, mellowing
the lands.
Until 1 dream the fields of golden grain
Are copies of Sahara's burning sands.
The Autumn brings the fair Italian
skies. •
So sweetly blue, so boundless In ex
panse;
And In my vineyard where young Bac
chus dyes
III* purple grapes are glints of sun
ny France.
Then Winter comes, and In my snug
domain
Is left no sign ot Illy nr of rose
And where, In Summer, dreamed
poppled Spain,
Lie* Labrador beneath her drifting
snows.
So. year by year, the seasons bring to
ine
Their many moving picture* that un
roll
In ever-changing views that I may see
The Earth from Its equator to the
pole.
—Nixon Waterman In Appleton's.
SOUTHERN PROPERTY VALUES.
An a matter of record of increasing
prosperity In the-South, the following
table of estimated true value of prop
erty there In 1900 and 1*04, complied by
the Manufacturers' Record from a but.
letln of the national census bureau is
of Interest:
1900 iso*
Alabama. .3 774,682.671 3 965,016 261
Arkansas... ihl4.21»,21L 803,907 972
Florida. . . .155.762,969 611.609400
Georgia. .. 936.00i),650 L167.666.671
Kentucky. 1,365.130.718 1,527,686.230
Louisiana. . 816.158,003 1.032,221006
Maryland. . 1,217,372,858 1,511,681 172
Mis* 557.581,563 . 898.269.022
N. Caro. .. 681.982,120 862.072 211
8. Caro. . . 686.678.068 585.858,222
Tenn. . . . 958,872,000 1,106,223 871
Texas. . . 2,322,151,031 2.836422.032
Virginia. . 1.102.309.6*6 14874761(0
W. Va. . . *59,852.551 660.000,16*
t GOSSIP!
By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER
New York. Dec. 27.—Whe-,
Pauline Morton becomes Mr? 'r n 1
kins Smith In New York city
tendant* will Include two wL ,„ ? u
belles MIS* Mathll.le To^! 1 ?* , »»
Miss Katherine Elkins. Mls.« «p„?, n 1
seems to cling to Washington '! y
she spends about a third of hir ' fl [ ’ r
the capital. She is a favorib , ?
Mrs. Roosevelt. The, wedding »IH lh
record-breaker. Car' loads of
Washington mu
for a number of guesu ,1
eluding Mrs. M. W. Wilson and Udv
ed a 7he d 'fohl« r,, | tm ?K decorat *onfi aili.rn-
ed the table, In the center of iviu, h
was a large white tree made to lot,I „
If It were covered with Ice, and at ii.e
corners of the table were small Chrk-i
mas trees. . i
neeiflli?* 1 "’•"’her*' wives are already
ai ranging for the list of women ivy>
will assist them at their reception ,in
New Year's day. Secretary anil Mil.
Root 'will give their first diplomat v
banquet on that day, when out-of-town
guests will be with them.
Certain of the new fur Jackets arc lie.
Ing greedily snapped up. for they ire
decidedly different from the run . f
such garments. They come from
Baris. The new etyle Is'a cross bc-
tween a gray coat and an Eton and
fits snugly In the back to the waist
line. The hairs are quite as lung ls
lynx. but. coarser and wl>h no sheen
"I believe that Plerpont Morgan lias
sold the furriers some of his English
sheep dogs,” said a girl who was puz
zling over It yesterday.
The president and Sirs. Roosevelt
accompanied by several children wi 1
go to Pine Knot. Mrs. Roosevelt's cot
tage. In Albemarle county. Virginia on
Thursday,/to be gone until Monday,
when It Is Inexorable that the president
shall hold th* annual New Year's re
ception.
Stealing a march on her parents aft
er her plan of eloping to Washington
had been nipped in the bud, .Miss i.ulu
Moseley Ready, daughter of Mr. and
-Mrs. C. E. Ready was married to WII-
llam Burthn Hicks, In Richmond. Va.,
yesterday afternoon, Rev. Rolteri For
syth, pastor of St. Pauls Episcopal
church, officiating.
When the young woman came down
to breakfast yesterday morning her
mother discovered that the girl was
wearing her wedding gown underneath
her outer dress. Declaring that *h,
should not marry, her father and two
brothers went to the several railway
stations to prevent the possibility of an
elopement.
The girl nnd Hicks learned early of
tills, and gathered a few friends ahmu
them, procured a marriage license and
were quietly wedded here. The fmher
and brothers, were then advised that
they might as well forego their cold
watch at the stations.
Official statements from Mrs. James
G. Blaine. In ‘ Washlnglon. announce
the.t she will soon become tho bride of
Paul S. Pearsall, of this city, a lieuten
ant with the Rough Riders during llie
war with Spain.
Mrs. Blaine, whose maiden name was
Mn'rtha Hlchborn. secured a divorce In
-South Dakota kmeral days ago. Her
husband was the eldest son of the well-
known statesman.
Pearsall, who possesses an independ
ent fortune. Is a 1 well-known figure in
society and belongs to some of Un-
most exclusive clubs. He has a-city
home at 173 Madison avenue nnd a
beautiful summer,place at Black Rock,
oh the sound near Bridgeport.
Mr*. Blaine received her decree it
Yankton, 8. Dak.. December 22. As
soon as It was granted she departed
for Washington, where she Joined her
parents. Rear Admiral and Mr*. Hlch
born.
The young woman and the states
man's son were matrled In Washing
ton In June. 1901. It was one of the
events of the season. Two years later
thero were rumors of a disagreement
between the couple. Finally Mrs
Blaine acknowledged the estrangement
nnd a short time afteiwards brought
her action.
She was Blaine's second wife. Ills
first was Mis* Marie Nevlns, of Colum
bus, who Is now Mrs. W. T. Bull, wife
of the noted surgeon. Site divorced
him at Sioux Falls, In 1892- It w"»
here the second Sirs. Blaine lived for
eevera! months that she might acquire
thejiwss^rvj-eslilsnce In the slate.
Total. .1:2436433,376 $15,623471,285
The Increase In value* during the
past ?wo yean has been quite a* great
as the Increase between 1900 and 1906.
SS. 8ou,h u nuw
BIG
KODAK
BUSINESS
We nntlclpnted n M*
wife of Kodak*, ranion*
uiuiitmir •U|ii>lle»,
I oil we really did not ex
pect to get znowed und'-.*
Tbe Brownie
Kodak
Boxe* were gone long 1**
fore everylxHly wa* »«l»-
piled, nnd the onlf ‘»f K<*
il*k* and mmplle* w«» eliu-
|dy unprecedented.
•bow* th»ft
“kodaking,picture fuk
lug. Is one of the
It Hliuply
“LiraUkln*”
A big order «»f new k<>
dak* and wtippU*** ■rrtv'
tmlii v, nal we are rwniv
to Ktipply erery want lu
• kodak F-
The Mnt few tiny* hm
I well rflic will tiler for ll»"
koT.nktr, a ml we tore be. :i
nearly *wni»ip*d with nt-
ntrur finishing work: h*»w
•orer. we sre. keeping «*'ii
beads above water nnd ir *
turning out the finest k;*-
•Ink work In the wbo>*
ffoatb.
Be ■ “kodsker. Get
In the swim. Take pie-
lures. Kodaks 4re cbeme-
$1 up lo tt6->«nd we glad
Iy Irftruet you bow
propci ly use one. •' *
t-npr. A child can do If
Agents for the fsmoti*
kodnks.
A. K. HAWKESCO.
THE KODAK HOUSE.
II Whitehall Street.