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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NE^\ o. TUPS DAT. DECEMBER D THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NEWS) Published Every Afternoon (Except Sunday) Oy • THE GEORGIAN COMPANY it 2ft West Alabama St.. Atlanta, On. Mom** 2.JJ Jhre* Month* ••••• LJ3 JJ nr Carrier. P#r Week 10 Smith .v Thompson. afivsrtWnt rep- reseutatlre* for all territory outala* of rje«?ft*. Chlcasm OflTIre .... Trlbnne BnllAIn*. New York Office .... Brunswick Bldg. It too here tiny trouble getting TIIR GEORGIAN AND NEIVH. telephone the elrcnletktp department end hate ftnhscrllwrs deelrlng TUB GEOR GIAN AM) NEWS dlarontliiued must notify this office on the date of expire* tleu; otherwise. It will tie continued et th* rejrtifar eal»*«iptloa retee nntll notice to stop Is received. fn ordering n change of addrese. please giro the old •• well ns the new address. It Is deelrsltle that all communica tions Intended for publication In THE GEORGIAN AND SEWS be limited to toO worda In length. It la Imperative “ 1 they be alined, as an evidence of 1 faith. Rejected manuacrlpta will 14 returned unless stamps are sent for the purpose. * TIIR GEORGIAN AND NEWS prints •so unclenti or objection*hie adrertle- Ihg. Neither does It print whisky or any liquor ads. orn ri.ATPORftt: toe Georgian 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. 1 i 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.