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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. L'LKSKAV, DBL'BMUEU 1L 11 Gash Assets .... $91,000,000 Surplus 13,000,000 Organized 1847 Charter Perpetual Insurance in Force Over $425,000,000 Ins. in Force in Georgia . 28,000,000 The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company OF PHILADELPHIA The Penn Mutual does not offer Special Board Contracts, by which one member is promised advantages not given to all. Being a purely Mutual Company, it could not do so and be honest. For five years the Penn Mutual has led all Companies in Georgia in paid-for business, and now leads all Companies in volume of business in force in the Stdte. This excellent result is because of the Company’s untarnished record for sixty years,’ the excellence of its policy forms, its liberal dividends, and especially because of its conservative management, which believes in exact and etjual justice to all, with special favors to none. i We invite correspondence with capable men of good character, who desire to engage in life insurance work. While previous experience in life insurance work is desirable, it is not essential. Liberal contracts for 1908 will be offered. To people who intend buying insurance, we will be pleased to furnish full information and specimen policies, free from importunity, upon application to any of our Agents or direct to this office. BAGLEY & WILLET, General Agents Georgia and South Carolina JAMES G. WEST, Manager City Department Entire Second Floor Fourth National Bank Building, Atlanta, Gao Or to the Following Southern General Agents: P. C. RATLIFF, Gen’l. Agt., Birmingham, Ala. BRANCH & POWELL, Gen’l. Agts., Montgomery, Ala. ACOSTA & BAHL. Gon’l Agts., Jacksonville, Fla. I. T. HEARD, Gen’l. Agt., Augusta, Ga. WILLIAM L. LOTT, Gcn'l. Agt., Columbus, Ga. JULIAN SCHLEY, Gcn’l. Agt., Savannah, Ga. M. P. FEAZELL, Gen'l. Agt., West Point, Miss. RATLIFF & GUNTER, Gen'l. Agts., Jackson, Mis3. R. E(. RANEY, Gen’l. Agt., Raloigh, N. 0. R. H. DRAKE, Gon’l. Agt., Griffin, Ga. E. P. GUERARD, Gen’t. Agt., Charleston, S. C/ JOHN S. LAND, Gen’l. Agt., Columbia, S. 0. PERRY MOSES, Gen't. Agt., Sumter, S. 0. TEN ARE HURT WHEN HOI IS WRECKED * HARRY BERGER FREE OF SERIOUS CHARGE New York. Dec. 31.—Ten persons, six Of whom are children, were Injured ear- ly today when n terrific explosion, be lieved by the police to have been gun- powder, wrecked the home of Joseph He, ripping out the front wall of the little two-story home. The Injured persons were Re, hla wife, (lauRhter and eon. and Mr. and Mn. Giovanni Sinnabaldl and their four children. Ambulance* frotn Lincoln Hospital brought physician* and the Injuries of the Inmates of the house were attended to. Disappointment In love Is believed to have been responsible for the explo sion. and the policemen are looking for a relative of the Re family. The members of ihe Ro family were hurled against the walls of the first floor front room and the material of the front wall fell In upon them. A coal stove set fire to the wreckage, and When the firemen arrived flames were beginning to spread. Will Reside in Atlants. Blackshear. Ga.. Dec. 31.—M. R. Miles, who has occupied the position of cashier of the Citizens’ Rank of this place since the organisation, has re signed. Mr. Miles and his family will reside In Atlanta. For lack of prosecution, two war rants against Harry Berger, the 16- ycar-old boy charged with forgery, were dismissed by Justice of the Peace Bloddworth Monday morning. Berger waa charged with making out three checks against Lane Bros. & Co. for a negro named Aaron Green. The checas were mado for 360 each and Green Is alleged to have taken them to Meriwether county, where he had them cashed. When srrested he Implicated Berger. The boy Is said to have made out the checks without any knowledge of hav ing violated the law. EXPLOSION OF BOILER KILLS TWO WORKMEN. fipeclnl to The Georgina. Hawklnsvllle, Ga., Dec. 31.—The boll, er of an engine at the saw mill, of R. K. Warren, 10 miles south of here, ex ploded early yesterday morning, in stantly killing two workmen and wrecking the mill. The shock was felt In Hawklnsvllle. and many people thought It was an earthquake. Petitions In Bankruptcy. Columbus, Ga., Dec. 31.—Oua Agoos, a Broad-st. merchant, haa filed a pe tition In bankruptcy In the United States court here, giving hts assets at 33,600 and his llabllltlea at 34,333.78. A. M. Baldwin, of Harris, Go., of the firm of A. M. Baldwin & Co., has also filed a similar petition, hla assets be ing given at 31,083.12, and his liabili ties at 31.423.86. DETECTIVES RAID BROKER'S OFFICE New York. Dec. 31.—Detectives yes terday raided (he office of George A. Shurtleff & Co„ mining stock brokers of Wall street, with branches In Phil adelphia and Boston, and mnde three prisoners, one .of whom waa John McLean, former head of J. L. McLean & Co., who owned a doxen scale on the Consolidated stock exchange until ho waa expelled In 1803, and two years later failed for 3*60,000. The other prisoners were Edward A. Keith, who, with George A. Shurtleff A Co., and Joseph Cowan, who, accord ing to documents found by the detec tives, appears to have had a great deal to do with the firm. The men were arrested on a charge of grand larceny. All three of the men were Identified by Arthur Bacon, a bricklayer, as having something to do with selling him 3105 wortli of Cobalt Sliver Wedge and *67 worth of Pride of Cobalt stock. / At Bonnie Brse Church. Christmas program of exercises consisting of songs, recitations and mu sic, will be rendered Tuesday night at the Bonnie Hrae church, corner of James and Lllllan-sts. The members the church congregation, Sunday school and the primary department will lake part. The exercises will begin promptly at 7:15 o'clock. SOUTHERN INTENDS TO CUT OUT TRAINS Notice of chiiDfffi In the schedule of tin* schedules between L'hnttnnongn mid At! lantn. Koine and Atlanta, Macon and Atlan ta and Atlanta and Washington. All of these nwi, to be otfectlvc January 5. The Florida tourist train of the Louisville and then over the G. 8. Ac F. road to Florida. MINISTER ROASTS "HIGH FINANCE In an eloquent sermon Sunday morn ing Dr. W. W. Landrum, pastor of the First Baptist church, scored the stock gamblers of Wall-st. and handled the subject of so-called "high finance” with gloves off. "The greed for gold." he said, "de- ■troya patriotism and makea the na tions forget God." He drew a striking picture of the statue of Washington, the man who laid hla great fortune on the altar of his country and cost his all with the American colonics In their strike for liberty, looking down on the sub-treasury building. In Wall-st., and declared that there the stock manipu lator, who feared that patriotic deeds would disturb business Interests, may find a lesson.for study. Dr. Landrum's congregation was held as by a spell while their pastor hurled Invectives at the Ill-conceived Ideas of some giants of high finance. WILL OPEN VAULT TO SETTLE CLAIM New York. Dec. 31.—Believing that It contains 345.000 worth of securities be. longing to Ihe estate of the Inte Ellen M. Colton, representatives of the su preme court of (he District of Colum bia and the state today will attempt to open the safe In Ihe vault In the Atlantic Trust Company. The order was Issued by Judge Davis. On the contents of that box will ’de pend whether 8-year-old Helen Beach Sncher will recover *600,000 or only half of that aum. If she succeeds In her efforts to break the will of her grmt- grandmother, Mrs. Coltoq. Also the charges of embeislement pending In San Francisco against David F. Walk er, Walter J. Hartnett and J. Dalsell Brown, of the California Safe Deposit and Trust Company, hinge on today'a disclosures. DEPOSITS INSURED UNDER A SPECIAL CONTRACT FARMERS AND TRADERS’ BANK Peters Street, Atlanta, Ga. W. 8. WITHAM, President ASA G. CANDLER, Vice-President. W. O. MANLEY, , Cashier. HURT STOPS GIFT OF LAND TO CITY The Georgia Railway and Electric Company Is having a hard time giving the city of Atlanta that 30-foot strip of land In the center of Ponce DeLeon- ave.' The matter has been banging fire several weeks. The streets committee tried to settle It Monday afternoon, but PLAN EXTRA SCHOOL FOR YOUNG JEWS It met with the earnest opposition of f ew weeks. The Congregation of Almvath Achlrn. of which Joel Dorfan Is president, will establish a Tamud-Torah. or Hebrew school, In which the orthodox Jewish children will be taught Hebrew history each afternoon after regular echo.tl hours. The school will open within a Insurance Manager Resigns. Jackson, Miss., Dec. 31.—Colonel W. J. Church ha* tendered his resignation as manager of the Lamar Mutual Life Insurance Company and will be suc ceeded tomorrow by Courtenay Baylor, of New Orleans, formerly superintend ent of agencies for the Louisiana Na tional Life Insurance Company. SUN LIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA. KEEP IT FOR TWENTY YEARS Arid if vou do not want it longer, ret m it and you will get all your money back with interest. In the meantime your WIFE and LOVED ONES have been protected. This marvelous policy will be issued by the SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY of CANADA during 1908. A card addressed to • • J. S. CAMERON, Manager, WILL. TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT. Third Floor, Prudential Building, Atlanta, Ga. AGENTS, See Our Renewal Contracts for 1908. Joel Hurt, and It was referred to the clcy attorney for further Investigation. One of the provisions going with the gift Is that the atrip he not used by another street car Company. .Mr. HUijj states that he wfahea 4o use a part of the right-of-way on'Ponce DeLeon-ave. for a line which a new' company Is lo build Into the city on the 1 east road of the city limit* and beyond Ponce De Leon park. . u. Mr. Hurt stated that according to a decision of the supreme court, tne street car company had lout Its rights In the Ponce DeLeon-ave. strip.. Mr. Arkwright, In answer, slated that If there was any question about his company owning the strip In question, the city could order an Investigation at his company’s expense. He stated further that the offer had been mode out of deference to the wishes of the people living In Ponce DeLeon-ave. Columbus, Oa„ Dec. 31.—In Colum bus the Interesting spectacle Is afford ed of a large Industrial center that Is striving earnestly, and with rather striking success, to be a "city beauti ful.” The city's record of planting a shade tree for each horse-power de veloped Is quite unique, allho of course Is simply a coincidence that th* devel opment of 10,000 horse-power from the falls of the Chattahoochee river at this point should be paralleled by the set ting out of 10,000 shade trees In the streets by the municipality. The Civic Improvement League has adopted a novel plan of securing pop ular co-operation In the plan of city beautification by offering prises. Water Board to Organiza. The new water board will perfect or ganisation at a meeting Thursday aft ernoon at 3 o'clock. Frank a. Lake will be elected president, to succeed Frank P. Rice, whose term expires. The following will compose the new board: Thomas F. Stocks, first wferd; Hugh M. Dorsey, second ward: 'V. E, Dunn, third ward; Fraak O. Lake, fourth ward; D. S. Walraven, fifth ward; D. N. McCullough, sixth ward; R. T. Pace, seventh ward; William J. Davis, eighth ward; Mayor Joyner and his appointee as chairman of the wa terworks committee of councU. To secure special teachers from New York 35,000 per year, will be raised. An attendance of 200 children Is ex pected. It Is the purpose of the mem. hers, of the congregation to not only have their children taught In the pub lic schools, but alSo Bv the leaders bf their rare. ' ' VdM Negro Boy Kilts Brother. Athena. Oa„ Dec. 31.—Firm John son, 15 years old, shot and killed his 12-year-old brother In a quarrel, liotli are negroes. Dr. Young to Speak. An address Interesting to the relig ious public of Atlanta will be delivered by Rev. Dr. W. H. Young Tuesday night at 7:30 o'clock In the auditorium of the Atlanta Bible School at 88 Oooper-*t. Dr. Young Is a noted schol. at and was pastor of the First Baptist church In Athens for fourteen years. He is now editor of-The Bible Studio and Is an Interesting speaker. The pub. lie Is cordially Invited to hear the lec ture. Bank Directors Give Dinner. Winder, Ga.. Dec. 31.—One of the en joyable events of the holidays here was la dlnaer served to the directors and employees of the Winder Banking Com pany Monday. December 30. at the Grant Hotel. Those present were T. A. ’Hard, A. A. Camp. J. I. J. Bell, K. ielly, Dr. J. S. DeLaporrlere, W. H. Braselton, W, B. McCains, U. J. Pente cost, Lee Shadford, Guy H. Kilgore, K. P. Cofleld. Will Not Recount Vote. Thomasvllle. Ox. Dec. 31.—The In junction forbidding a recount of the vote* In the recent election has been granted by Judge Mitchell. This as sures the election of Judge .Montgom ery for mayor and the victory of the anti-cow side. STUART'S BABY COLIC REMEDY No home with children should be without it. Relieves promptly. M