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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NE^\ o.
TUPS DAT. DECEMBER D
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AND NEWS stands for Atlanta's own-
»• as low as to cents, with 4 profit
ntles. ns they are. there la no good
reason why they can not ha so oper
ated here. But we do not believe this
can be done now. and It taar bs some
.years before wa are ready for ao ble
an undertaking. Still Atlanta should
set Its face In that direction NOW.
White Flag Abolished.
By a recent revision of the regula
tions. the rear admiral's white flag
has been abolished as a naval flag.
Hereafter there will be but two stand
ard! tor flag officers, a blue flag for
the senior rear admiral in command
and a red flag for all Junior rear ad
mirals In a fleet. That arrangement
will prevail during the coming cnilse
of the Atlantic fleet to the Pacific
coast. Rear Admiral Evans, as tho
commander In chief, will fly a blue
flag and the other rear admirals com
manding squadrons and division! of
the fleet will fly red flags from their
flagships. Similarly Rear Admiral
Dayton, tho commander-in-chief of the
Pacific fleet, will display a blue flag
and the other admirals In that fleet
trill fly red flags. In caso tho two
fleets are combined under one com
mand, Rear Admiral Evans, as tho
senior officer, will have command and
fly the blue flag.
To Quit Active 8ervice.
Next year twenty-one officers will
leave active aervloe for age. Includ
ed in this number are three general
officers: Brigadier General J. M. K.
Davis, commanding the Department
of the Gulf, who retires on January
SI; Major General A. W. Oreely, com
manding the Department of Dakota,
on March 2T, and Brigadier General
C. B. Hall, commandant of the Staff
Ccfllege and special service schools at
Port Leavenworth, ou. April 29.
Beer will go up a dollar a barrel
os January 1. Who keert?
Old 8anta Is getting a run for bis
mouey In' Atlanta's shopping district
Just now.
Last call for holiday shoppers. It’s
almost a non-insurable risk now to
get Into the clamoring hordes abound
the bargain counters.
Tillman resumed command of the
senatorial calcium, after allowing
Davis to try bis haud on It for a
few. minutes.
So tar aa statistics have been com
piled nobody has been pinched blue
by the falling of Malevolent Manhat
tan's Sunday lid.
Ex-Governor Black warns the pub
lic against the "man speaking from
the head of the barrel.” But what
other use can Georgia make of bar
rels after January If
Wc are growing almost ns skepti
cal about the actual existence of Bill
Skill!:, of Henrico county. Virginia,
as wo are about the Iloiistou Post's
ability 'to produce a 12-foot collard.
Gentlemen of the Paragraphers'
’■lion, nn guard! "Dlavolo" will
non break loose on the country like
' pigs-ln-clovor" delirium.
"The speculative desire Is nature's
first expression of progress.” says
Henry Clews. And the final one lead
ing to retrogression.
Extensive beds of lobsters are to
be planted In British Columbia, If the
New Yorkers will consent to the
transplanting.
"Partigtnphers must make no al
lusion to the Rooster* of Houston,"
admonishes The Post. If they are
like George Bailey It Isn t necessary.
They Will do their own crowing!
HOW THE COUNTRY LOOKS
A quick trip through New York and the . West kbows that wo have
not been the worst sufferers during the past sixty days.
Cities dependent upon the production of luxuries like Detroit with
Us automobile factories suffer^ most. It Is claimed that forty thousand
men have been laid off In that city, and when one considers that auto
mobiles are so large a part of Its produot, the fact that It will always
feel depression more than cities where necessary Industrials make up
their activity will readily appear.
Cincinnati Is more matter of fact, and the few people who are
not brewing beer or tanning hides—two things that never seem to stop
In Cincinnati—are pretty generally busy otherwise. A friend employing
-400 machinists had but sixty laid off and expected to havo them all on
again by January 1. , \
Thefo seems to be a tendency on the part of manufacturers to take
advantage of this occasion to shrink their stocks and go along quietly
until their January Inventory period, cleaning up odds nnd ends and
figuring out where they stand.
St. Lott I s seemn to feel cheerful, and no big Ioaiei or failures are
heard of there. 8t. Loula has grown so In the past few years that few
realize It has three-fourths of a million people within Us borders. It Is
a great manufacturing center, and seemingly should bombard hit by a
depression, hut everything seems to be going along about as usual—
perhaps a little moro quietly. Bt. Louis bank clearings for November
were $223.000.000—only 12 per cent below November,-190S.
New York seems as busy as ever. There Is money there for those
who need It. K friend with a little business on which bo had never
previously borrowed any money had no trouble In getting $35,000 on
last Monday from his bank, and when put.to the teat, the banks, as a
rule, seem to he taking care of their friends and customers.
There has been a persistent rumor that a great merchant with a
world-wide reputation bad quietly passed Into tho bauds of a receiver.
This Is not true, so far as can be ascertained, end is flatly denied by
the highest newspaper authorities In Now York. When one considers
the millions upon millions this great merchant has put Into two great
buildings In New York and Philadelphia. It would hardly be a aurpriie
If a depressed condition or the money market should embarrass him to
some extent, but we are glad to tee that It has not.
The feeling In New York seems to be quite bitter against Mr.
Roosevelt Of course, his policies have hurt more Now York people
than any others, and they are only squealing because it hurts. Broker
age and stock people complain, of course, but there seems to bo no
slackening or stoppage of business, where real honest progress Is In
volved. For Instance, the Hudson Terminal enterprise that Is driving
four tunnels under the Hudson river and erecting the largest building
In the world over the New York end of the terminals, with four thou
sand offices, was underwritten by one banking house for $100,000,000.
and I understand tho entire amount has now been called, with but a
few delays In getting In the money.
Tho enormous work of the Pennsylvania railroad's terminals and
tunnels Is going along rapidly. Millions upon millions have been spent
on It. The New York Central Is pushing its terminal construction, and
tho massive old Grand Central train shed that has stood so long Is now
being dismantled place by pleee. The Lackawanna has nearly complet
ed Its magnificent terminal In New York and Jersey City. Even along
tho Southern for several hundred miles there Is still a great deal of ac
tivity in new road building and the magnificent bridge work that forms
s part ot It.
The country seems to be bulldlng-mad—new buildings everywhere,
always a larger and a better structure replacing an old one. In every
case better materials are being used. It's concrete—concrete—concrete
—bridges, stores, ofttco buildings and every concelvablo thing being
molded In solid concrete—the unchangeable, the unalterable.
Everybody seema to be doing things for time and eternity. The
old "veneer” Ideas are passing away, and substantial things are taking
their place. The country Is strong—only banks and men have failed,
where lack of proper methods and common boneity existed, and where
suicide's pistol erased the clew to the full guilt.
But nowhere docs there seem to be the substantial, quiet plodding
that Is felt hero In onr section. The reason Is obvious—nowhere do
they depend upon such certainties as* here. The crops are here—the
cotton grows—tho teeming millions need It—the mills must have it—
and one can not but see the difference between having to depend upon
Industrie* that are more or less luxurious that suffer from depressed
Conditions and on our own that rest upon a great, strong foundation aa
the direct product 'of our aoll.
The' Bouth has much to be thankful for. K. L. SEELY.
SENATOR TILLMAN AGAIN IN THE LIMELIGHT.
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, never stays In the shadows any
longer than he can grope his way to the limelight. He Is thoroughly
aware of the value of publicity In political life and takes advantage of
every opportunity to keep himself before the country, whether In so
dolnx he gains applause or censure.
There are very few questions of general Intereet and Import that do
not receive the oratorical consideration of Senator Tllltunn and the pub
lic has fallen into the habit of read lug whatever the press dispatches
send out from Washington regarding this remarkable man and his opin
ions and policies. His speech before the senate on Monday was charac
teristic of Senator Tillman, and while many of his statements are an
tagonistic to general public opinion, yet he never makes a speech or de
livers a lecture that he does not furnish food for serious thought on
current Issues.
Mr. Tfllmtn advocated In his speech on Monday a larger, more
elastic currency, which would benefit the (armors of the West and South,
and ridiculed with all of the force of his unusual wit the recent Issuance
of clearing house certificates to relieve the present financial stringency.
His. statement that the financiers and gamblers of New York were
too actively Interested In treasury operations, will receive sympathetic
consideration from the laymen of the country.
While Sonatnr Tillman It essentially a radical on Almost all ques
tions of national importance, the turning on of the light Into corners In
which many great financial transactions are made, wtfTnecessarily prove
valuable nnd wholesome at this time when the people are striving to
And a solution of present difficulties and a preventive to similar condi
tions In the future. <
ROOSEVELT WANTS MEN FIT FOR SADDLE.
President Roosevelt, In regard to the Military Academy at West
Point, has caused one of the regulations to be amended so as to read as
follows:
"A board composetKuf five officers, to be appointed In orders from
the war department, will examine carefully the members of each gradu
ating class as to their fitness .tor mounted service, taking Into considera
tion only the degree of proficiency shown by thorn in riding and horse
manship and their size, when so great aa to indicate present or future
unsuitability for mounted service, and will report them by name in three
groups as determined by the result of the examination, viz.; 1. Those
considered specially qualified for mounted service. 1. Those considered
qualified. 2. Those coaslilored not qualified.”
Favor an Amendment.
Lumbermen of the northwest, who
are in Washington to attend the hear
ing before the Interstate commerce
commission of their complaint against
the Northern Pacific's and Or«at
Northern’s 25 l»r cent Increases la
lumber freight rates, are openly In
dorsing Senator Fulton's proposed
amendment to the Hepburn rate bill,
which provides tb*t any Increased
railroad rale which Is duly complain
ed of by shippers, shall not be put
Into effect by the carriers until Its
remsonatyaeM Is determined by the
commerce cnmmlsdon.
Increase in Moils.
The increase In the British mall
with Cantda on account of the reduc
tion In postage on magcilnes, periodi
cals and newspapers ha* been phe
nomenal. Prom May 1 to October $1
Iasi the number of British mall bags
received at Canadian ports was It,-
$91, aa compared with $,288 during
tho same period of 190$, or an Increase
of 10.303 bags. This was an Increase
of 185 per ceat. The Increase of
British wall* by way of New York
for the same six months was 15 per
cent
firowtli and Progress of the New South
The Oeorjlnn here records each day
sows economic fact In reference te
the onward progress of the Sooth.
DY
JOSEPH B. LIVELY
Auatln. Tex.. Dec. 17.—The Tex** railroad* will l*e well supplied with equip-
meat yrtu-n Hie tinier, which have liren limed by fhr railroad .riiimlmloii of till,
mate for the pun-haw »f rolling .took hr the various rood, MjnaHbdgP- W*
the Kouthetn Lumberman. The pun-haw. to he delivered within thei Best^hrje
jre»r». The lateat equipment outer lantej by the <oiural..lou spptle. to the follow
ing road.:
Fort Worth »nd Detirer City Hallway-One loeomotlre. oue paf.enger conch,
thirty freight our*. Drat year; one locomotive, oue paiarnger coach, twenty freight
car a. aerond rt-sr; ten freight cam. third year. „
Kaetero ‘fezaa—Two tmaaeuger coaches, tlfty freight enra. two bitvtnotlvea, firat
year: otic locomotive, one peaietiger coach, tlfty freight rare, aecond year; tvreuty
freight cara. third year. .
Kt. lamia Somhwcatein Railway t’oupany of Teaaa-Teii loeomolleea, ninety
refrigerator enrn. Brat year: ten locotuotlTea. aet-ouj year; four locomotive., third
■ Te "iieniimnnt, Rear lathe and Weatern Hnllwny-SIx locomotive., foW paatu-iigrir
eoacbea. ISO freight car*, drat year: Mine equipment, Icaa two locomotive*, aecond
***t : eh> Northern—Forty freight earn, first year: twenty freight care, aecond year.
Kama. city. Mcileo nnd Orient-Ten lommtlvca, elx 1-eMrugcr -
fakls^- "
coarhea.
Including twenty atoclt rnra. thlr
l-lrlngaton and Soiilhwcilern-Twenty freight cara, firet year; ten freight car*.
^Moaeowf'Camden nnd Pan Anpiatlna-Tweuty freight cara, flrat year; ten
freljtht 'ara. aecond^ year.
y ”l ; ec-oa end Nwlhern Tcxae-Tcn locomotive., als paeeenger coachea. nnd
freight cara. Including ality .lock cara. Ural year; alx locomotive., two polecnger
ec.-i.ea-an freight cara. Including forty .lock cara. aecond year; 100 freight cant,
third year.
ogilocbea rtouthe.at.ro—Thirty freight car., firit y.nr, nnd fifteen .eeond
....... Illver Itnllrond-Two locomotlrea. two p.aacnger rnarb«». tOO freight corn.
Including thirty .lock cnr., flrat year: two locomotive., two p.isengor roaches
alxty freight cnr.. Including ten Mock cnr«. aeenud yc.r; twenty freight cure, third
ye.r.
Fort Worth nnd Rbi (Iranile-KIght Ine.imotlre*. four ontaengey eonchef. SSD
freight cere. Including alsty .lock car* fir.t yenr; eight locomotive., Iwo pns.ni-
ger coachea. 130 freight car.. Including ality »tock era, aecond yenr: three locomo
tive.. IM freljtht era. Including thirty .tick era. third year.
tthlcngo. nock lalnnfl nnd Onlf llullw.iy-Twenty Incoinntlert. fifteen paaaenger
eonchea. 4*M freight cnr.. Including 100 atock era nnd fifty coni care, flrat year;
anmo aecond ye«r; aliteen locomotlrea, alx pni.annger roachea. 210 freight enra. In
cluding fifty stock era nnd twenty-live coni cats, third yenr.
GEORGIAN ECHOES
OOOOHH*MIOO,«000*HOOi
Ths Atlanta Georgian speaks of Au
gusta an a quiet, pretty village, end
yet we prefer Augusta to Atlanta
which, with all Its big metropolitan
ways could not hold the star-eyed
John Temple Graven. He knew how
email Atlanta really Is. Now. Augusta
make, no pretensions to being some
thing she Is not—she la what she le.
a mighty fine town, something like Co.
lumbla.—Columbia (8. C.) Record.
“Argument can only convince the
reasonable," observes the Houaton
Chronicle. A married men wrote that.
—Atlanta Georgian.
A married man wouldn't dare to
write It, John. It le only the bachelor
Ilk that fling paragraphical rocks at
the tadlos.—Rome Herald.
Now comes The Atlanta Georgian
and declares: “From the banks of
the soothing Savnnnah cornea a voice
of commendation for The Georgian's
plea for the village. While not hav.
lag In mind the quiet and serene vil
lage of Augusta, It might have been
taken as the model for the placid and
Ideal email town. And Augusta was
a city when Atlanta wu Just Mer-
thaevlllg, and modest.—Columbus En
quirer-Sun.
Something In the atmosphere about
Rome. Jack McCartney already .hows
tendencies that almost place him In
the class of unregenerated end hope
lessly lost' paragraphers. — Atlanta
Georgian.
Thero le lots of company.—Rome
Herald.
The Atlanta Georgian len't far wrong
In the following: ‘'Congress will go
through the monumental folly of wind.
Jobbing for about ten days, then ad
journ until after the holidays. Tho
session up to January Is always a
farce."—Arlington (Go.) Courier.
Since The Atlanta Georgian printed
the picture of that eight-foot collard
that was grown by an Atlanta ama
teur gardener, the Texas papers have
quit bragging about the Texas pro
duct. What would they do were they
to tec the picture of a collard grown
by a professional In this more favor
ed section of Georgia?—Augusta Her
ald.
At any rate, every Georgian who can
not afford a Thnnkaglvlng turkey, can
at least dine on collarde and potlloker,
which beats the beet turkey In the
country to a fraztle.—Atlanta Goor*
Xlun.
It the man who wrote that really be
lieves what he says (a* to which we
have doubts), he ought to be down on
the farm plowing a mouse-colored mule
named Beck.—Cuthbert (Ga.) Leader.
The Atlanta Georgian and organ-
(red labor of Atlanta are ndvocutlng
more pay for Ihc city school teachers.
With these forces working In har
mony for the sente cause, we predict
there will be eomethlng doing In salary
raising down at the city hall.—Winder
(Ga.) News.
The Atlanta Georgian declares that ]
"the bill Introduced In tile national.
congress u few days ago by lion. W.
C. Adamson, of Georgia, asking for
Increased compensation of rural mall
carriers, should enlist the approval and
Indorsement of representatives and
senators regardless of psrty lines or
effillatlone.”—Columbus- Enquirer-Sun.
Specie! care for drunken people are
now advoceted. They would grow old
and musty from lack of use In Geor
gia after January 1.—Atlanta Georgian.
Not If the state prison commission
succeeds In having Governor .Smith
pardon all the "wildcatters." If you
please.—Roeavllle (Ga) New Age.
"tire found for cotton stalks," an
nounces a press dispatch. Mighty few
fanners that can not offer feeling teetl-
mor.y that his dad found use for them
long time ago.—Georgian.
True as gospel.—Wadley (Ga) Star.
The A (lama Georgian warns ne to
“atop whistling through a graveyard
that dues not exist.” but because we
have parsed through safely and en
countered only currency's ghost In the
form of clearing house certlffraiee, dues
not mean that there wee never e chance
of a more gruesome bogle.—Savannah
I'rvss.
No sooner hes The Atlanta Georgian
produced n collard ten feet tall than
The Houston Pott produces one eleven
feet: whereupon The Georgian ex
presses "surpriie." Surprise? At
what? That The Post's wasn't twenty
feet tall.—Rome Tribune.
The Atlanta Georgian Is bold enough
to come out In a scorching condemns-I
lion of the Eradley verdict, which It I
terms a slap In the face of American '
womanhood. The Georgian makes out
a pretty good case for Itself, too.—Rome
Herald.
The Atlanta Georgian thinks that the I
Southern baseball pennant “ought to
more than offs*'. the lot* of the high
ball" In Mobile. If the prohibitionist
leagues could be split as easily as In- f
nmtlvee, there would never be such a
thing es a lost highball In this world.— I
Richmond ThPW-wru'ch.
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IMHIIMfMMHMIitlHMll
"Music le said to be a great hair re
storer." says The Atlanta Georgian. The
New York Sun Is running a column on
the question of baldness. The above le
commended to that paper—Knoxville
Sentinel.
The Atlanta Georgian calls upon Bur.
bank to product a swearlese collar but.
ton. First find a necklets man.—Romo
Herald.
We can produce the necklace lady,
all right.—Georgian.
Much obliged. When wc want that
sort of a proposition we will deal direct
and not through any dern paragrapher.
—Rome Hgrald.
The Atlanta Georgian pnragranher la
getting a hump on himself these days.
He must havo eaten up that big collard
and feels more vigorous.—Rome Tri
bune.
If The Atlanta Georgian will be quiet
until a special camera arrives from
the factory wc Intend to produce the
photograph of the Brazos collard twelvo
feet high.—Houston Post.
It Is Interesting to note that The At
lanta Georgian and the Houston Post
are In hitter dispute a* to whether
such a thing as a 12-foot collard roally
exists. Only yesterday reliable old
Bill Skllllt Informed us that one-tenth
of his fnmoue Henrico garden Is a mass
of 14 and lfl-foot collarde, one dozen
of which young Peter cute each morn
ing to stay the .glorious appetites of
the magnificent Skllllt perkere.—Rich
mond Tlmes-Dlspntch.
Upon hearing that somebody wa* go
ing to send President Roosevelt a
Georgia ‘possum for hit Christmas
dinner, old Bill Skllllt Imemdlately an
nounced hie Intention of sending two
genuine Old Virginia 'possums to Sen
ator Foraker.—Richmond Tlmcs-Dls-
patch.
MADD0X-RUCKER BANKING CO.,
CORNER ALABAMA AND BROAD STS.
I F.you are thinking of opening a bank account,
or of changing the location of your present one,
we would invite you to look into the facilities of
fered by this institution. Wo are confident that
we can help you. Consult our officers. ' '
Up in a War Balloon
A Navy Recruit
Captain John E. IMIUhury, tho navjr
hoard's now luombor, said tho other day In
Washington of n recruit who could not
shoot:
•The aorgonnt tried tho follow first at
WW yardo and hi* failed to come within a
mile of the target.
•Then he was tried at 500 yard*, then at
200, then at 100, and bla Inst shot wna worse
If possible, tbrtn Ills flr,(.
"The urgesut looked nt him disgust
edly, got very nngrjr, and milking up closs
to him shouted hi bis face:
•• 'Attention! Fix bayonet! Charge the
Leathlr " * ,0,,r onlf "-Cleveland
By WEX JONE8.
Great honor. The government of
France ha* asked me to Jake part In’
the ceremony of (wearing In the first
dirigible balloon to be attached to a
fortress.
Enormous crowds present when La
Scatrle Is floated over the fort. Sol
diers presented arm,, hand played
"Moon. Dear,", people cheered madly.
Sudden puff of wind. Captain yelled
to aoldlers, who dropped arms and
grabbed a lot of ropes to hold us down.
Wanted to climb out, but captain
wouldn’t let me.
Another puff of wind. Soldiers went
up In the air with- ue. but hung on
nobly until we scraped them off against
a thorn hedge. La Scatrle ahot up Into
the air and began to whirl around.
"Steer her toward a hotel." 1 said to
the captain. “Can’t steer." said he:
"leg's torn off my trousers and stuck
In the motor." "Where are we going?"
■aid L "Je ne savoy paa,” said he,
“where the wind blows us."
After all the glory and the bands and
so forth, to be adrift In Ijs Scatrle. the
pride of France, just like two tramps
of the air! A tear rolled down my
cheek and fell to the earth, hundreds of
feet below.
We drifted and drifted all night.
Clel but It wna cold and wet! In the
morning we saw a fine country below.
“Let ua descend and obtain refresh
ment," said I to the captain. In the end
he did so.
The persons titling In the fields looked
■t us and at the balloon. "It. le the
French war bulloon!" they cried, and
ran like rabbits.
"HI!" Fcried, “all wc want Is food."
but they kept on running. Whot was
one to do with such fools? Half nn
hour later, es I was stumbling over the
fields toward a farm house. I saw a
company of soldiers approaching. One
of the farmers pointed me out. "There
Is one of tho men that are trying to
seize our country." I did not wait for
the volley that rang out, but scooted for
La Scatrle.
We roso high In the air. and I could
not smile again until a bug of send I
dropped hit the farmer nn the head.
Then I laughed and began to think war
was a good thing, and some of the old
glory of France was reflected on my
face. But the low soldiers fired several
bullets at us, some of- them whisking
quite close. Cowards!
Wind shifted nnd we began to drift
In the opposite direction. "Why don't
yon do something?" I asked the cap
tain. What can I do?" tald he.
"Well," said I, "what's the use of a
captain that can't capt?"
Floating over the sea now.. Warship
In sight; may rescue us. Warship fir
ing heavy glins nt {us! They all go
underneath us. Think I shall dlvq. over
the side.
Dived!
Warship picked me up and captain
asked me what we were doing chasing
his ship.
Words failed me!
; War la war, but only on good, hard
ground.
PEOPLE AND THINGS
GOSSIP FROM THE HOTELS
AND THE STREET CORNERS
It looks llko a merry scramble Is go
ing to result for the sollcitorshlp of the
Rome circuit. .Solicitor W. II. Ennis is
a candidate for re-election. John W.
Bale, a well-known young lawyer, of
IatFayette. has announced, and Judge
G. A. H. Harris, of Rome, has his ear
to the ground listening for the call.
There Is also talk of Frank W. Cope
land. of Rome, who won considerable
fame In the Sanford trial.
Hon. Harper Hamilton, judge of tho
city court of Rome, has almost gained
bis consent to make the race for con
gress In the Seventh against Gordon
Lee. According to the Rome papers
Judge Hamilton "hoe the matter under
advisement."
As yet little hoe been beard concern
ing candidates In the vnrlous counties
and districts (or the 1909-10 house and
senate. A lew candidates have launch,
td booms hero and there, but the gen
eral field has not opened up yet. Speak
er John M. Slaton has announced for
the Senate and the senate presidency
from this district, and there are a
dozen or more candidates for the house
from Fulton In the field. It will be In
teresting to watch and see what course
Governor Smith will pursue If certain
men offer for election In their counties.
He hue stated In speeches that It Is his
purpose to go Into these counties nnd
tell the people something about the
candidates and their records. He has
not named any of the’ men lie expect*
to fight In this way.
Judge L. 8. Roan and Attorneys
Luther Z. Rneaer and P. II. Brewater
left Atlanta Sunday night for Homo-
sassa. Fla., near the gulf, where they
will spend the- Christinas holidays
shunting ducks and angling for the
finny tribe. At Homosoasa the party
will Join Attorney Charley Hopkins,
who left Atlanta last Friday for the fa.
ARMY-NAVY ORDERS
AND
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.
Army Orders.
Washington. Doc. 17.—Major Charles E.
Woodruff, surgeon, from rlattsburg bar-
racks to Fort Wadsworth.
Captain (Jenrgc M. Apple, Fifth field ar
tillery. detailed mnunging director at Fort
Leavenworth.
Lieutenant L. K. Cole, oialatant surgeon,
Snn Francisco, to Washington barracks.
Captain Henry B. Dickson, from Baa
Francisco to Fort Meyer.
Navy Order*.
Captain J. II. Miller, navyya rd. Mars I*-
l*nd. duty na cuntaln of yard.
Lieutenant E. II. Cook, detached Tlncey
to Atnbnnm.
Ensign A. c. Kale, detached Alabama,
wait orders.
Movements of VsimIs,
Arrived—December 11: Treble at Mars
Island. December 16: Hopkins nnd Miru-,
brick nt Trinidad, Tecutnaeh tt Hampton
Hoads. Craven at Norfolk. 1 December lit
Nevada nt-Norfolk.
Hailed—December 15: Ma/fiowsr and Dol
phin, Washington for Hampton Roads;
Dablgren. placed In reserve at Norfolk
n*ry yard, December 15.
Thought Ho*d Lost Pension.
•That,” said Hcuntor Beveridge of * wit-
tlcliiin. “was quaintly put. It Is like ths
remark of an old veteran. This aged msu,
going from hi* room one night to let out
the cat. stumbled on the landing and
pitched headlong down Into the hall. *Wby,
Mias,* called hi* wife, ‘la that you? Did
you fnII downstairs?* ‘Ye*.' grunted the
old fellow, rising slowly. ‘Yea, I did. nnd
for about n inlnuto and a half I thought I’d
lost »ny pension.’ ”—Cleveland Lender.
tnoua resort of fishermen and hunters.
Lieutenant Hubert M. Campbell, of tbo
Twelfth cavalry, arrived Tuesday morning
to take up hi* duties ns nhlenlr r
pn ii in xiiwiritiwii ii •luiiuK inn auiuiurr •*»-
tending the exposition with a squadron of
cavalry from Fort Oglethorpe.
IIIIOHIIMII
DID YOU EVER HEAR THIS BEFORE?
Famous Poem, **,A Visit From Si. Nicholas,” Was Writ
ten Many Years Ago, But ‘Popularity Never Wanes
Tws» the night before Christmas, whan all through the house
Not a creature wss stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings wars hung by the chimney with core,
In hops that St. Nicholas soon would bs there;
The children were nestled all snug In thslr beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced In thslr heads;
And mamma In her kerchief, and I In my cap,
HHd Just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap—
J* out on the lawn there arose such a clatter.
I sprung from my bed to see wliat was the matter. *
Away to the window I flew like a flush.
Tore open the shutters nnd threw up the sash.
The moon, on the breast of the new fallen snow.
Gave a luster of midday to objects below;
When, what to my wondering eye* should appear.
But a minimum sleigh, and sight tiny reindeer.
With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
t knew-In,a moment It must be St. Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they come.
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name:
"Now, Dasher! now. Dancer! now, Proncer and Vixen!
On, Comet, on. Cupid! on. Donder and Blltsen!
To the top of the porch, to the top of the wall!
Now, dash away, dash away, dash away all!"
As dry leave* that before the wild hurricane fly.
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky,
So up to tho housetop the coursers they fiew.
With the sleigh full of toy*—and St. Nicholas, too.
And then In a twinkling I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each tiny hoof.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around
Down the chimney St. Nicholas cams with a bound.
He wss dressed all In fur from his head to his foot.
And tils clothe, were all tarnished with ashes and soot;
A bundle of toys ho had flung on hla back.
And he looked like a peddler Just opening Ids pack.
His eyes, how they twinkled!' his dimples how merry;
Ills cheek, war* like roses, bis now like a cherry;
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And ths heard on hi* chin won as white ■■ ths snow.
The stump •( a pipe he held tight In hts teeth.
And the smoke. It encircled hie head like a wreath.
He had a broad face and • little round belly
That shook, when he laughed, like a bowl full of Jelly.
II* wss chubby and plump—» right Jolly old elf:
And I laughed when I *»'v him. In spile of myself.
A wink of his eye. end a twist of hie head.
Soon gave me to know I hed nothing to dread.
He apoke not a word, but went straight to hi, work.
And filled all the stockings: and ther, turned with a Jerk,
And laying hla Anger aside of hie nose.
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose..
He ,prwng x to hie sleigh, to hie team gave a whletle,.
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle;
But beard him exclaim, ere he drove cut of eight.
“Happy Christmas to ell. and to all a goodnight!"
Clement Clerk* Moore Composed
tho Jingle For tho Plseiure cf Hit
Own Household, But It Ha, Gain
ed Wide Circulation in tho Past
S4 Years.
When Clement Clarke Moore
wrote “A Visit From St. Nicho
las,’’ he hatl no thought that it
would ever see the light of pub
licity.
Professor Moore was a learned
teacher of Biblical love in a
theological seminary in 1882.
He wrote “A Visit From St.
Nicholas’’’ for the family circle.
As a specimen of perfected ver :
si Heat ion it is exceedingly crude,
violating some of the best known
rules for the guidance of verse-
makers.
The poem was printed with-
ont the consent of the author in
the Troy (N. Y.) Sentinel, De
cember’ 23, 1823. Prof. Moore
was so distressed by its publica
tion that he came very near re
signing his place as a teacher.
Bflt the exquisite sentiment of
the poem rose above any crudi
ties of construction, and won
tremendous favor at once.
“A Visit From St. Nicholas”
has survived through the years,
and is still popular every where.
It is. given here as Professor
Moore penned it 85 years ago.