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2 IHRRMEEM H TO METHODIST MINISTRY South Georgia Conference Set tles This Question in Case From Pelham District. SAVANNAH. GA., Nov. 29.—The committee on uppllcations and admis sions of the South Georgia Methodist conference today reported a number of candidates woh were admitted to the ministry, but not until the application of James M. Clark, of the Pelham dis trict, had precipitated a spirited dis cussion on account of his being a mar ried man, with several children. Rev. T. D. Ellis and Rev. Bascom Anthony objected to his admission, de claring that, being married, the can didate would encounter difficulties on a charge of the character to which he would be assigned. Others said It was ■not Methodism to object to a. married man, which would, in effect, be encour aging race suicide. The conference decided that marriage was no bar to the admission of candi dates to the ministry. Vote on Advocate Trustees. Tt was announced that the terms of Dr. W. N. Ainsworth and Dr. A. M. Williams, as trustees of The Wesleyan Christian Advocate, the official organ of the church, will expire with this conference. A ballot to name their suc cessors was taken, but conference ad journed before the result could be de termined. Those who have been advanced to the orders of elders and deacons will be ordained by Bishop A. W. Wilson Sunday morning. This ceremony Is us ually' one of the features of the confer ence. Dr. Stonewall Anderson, of Nashville, secretary of the board of education, ad dressed the conference this afternoon, and Dr. E. F. Cook will speak tonight, the occasion being the anniversary of the missionary' board. Congratulate Carolinans. Telegrams of congratulations were exchanged with the South Carolina conference, in session at Anderson. The conference proper was not in session yesterday afternoon, bift, nev ertheless, two adjunct meetings were held, one In the afternoon, when Dr. Stonewall Anderson, of Nashville. Tenn., secretary of the board of edu cation, and the other nt night, when Dr. W. F. McMurray, of Louis ville, Ky., secretary of the board of church extension, delivered an address. Both services were hugely attended. Bishop Prays For Wilson. In delivering the Thanksgiving prayer yesterday, Bishop James H. Mc- Coy asked for divine guidance for President-elect Woodrow Wilson, "the man who, by’ the'suffrage of a great people, has been elected to the presi dency of a great nation.” Bishop Mc- Coy tendered thanks to the Almighty that He has given to this nation a ruler who Is a “man of the church, a man who fears God and believes in Jesus Christ.” He prayed that the Al mighty might direct the next president in all of his labors and “defend him against the assassin, sickness and troubles of any sort.” Young Preachers Advance. The committee on relations reported the following who had been received on trial last year had passed the ex aminations and were advanced: J. F. Snell, J. H. Robinson. T. E. Murray, R. Q. Whittle, Robert Rouse, E, L. Wainwright, J. C. Bourne, E. W. Sanders, J. R. Webb, W. W. Hill and Lehland Moore. The following having failed to pass were continued on trial: C. L. Wall, G. P. Patrick. M. W. Flanders, R. (’. Dell, Herbert Etheridge, L. T. Roger.-, W. C. McGill, L. E. Brady, C. Boland. G. R. Stephens and R. T. Dennis. The following who were on trial were discontinued at their own request: L. H. Ward and O. B. Close. John B. Simons, of the class of the second year, having moved to Texas college, was continued in the same class, and J. T. Budd, transferred to this conference from tne Missouri con ference and having failed to pass the examination, was continued in the class. GRANDMOTHERS USED SAGE TEA To Darken the Hair and Re store Gray and Faded Hair to Its Natural Color. it is easier to preserve the color of the hair than to restore it. although it is possible to do both. Our grand mothers understood the secret. They made a ‘‘sage tea," and their dark, glossy hair long after middle life was due to this fact. Our mothers have gray hairs before they are fifty, but they are beginning to appreciate the wisdom of our grandmothers in u-ing "sage tea’ for their hair and are fast follow ing suit. The present generation has the ad vantage of the past in that it can get a ready-to-use preparation <•;»>•<; Wv eth s Sage and Sulnhur Hair Remedy As a scalp tonic and color restorer this preparation is vastly -up.-rmr to the ordinary "sage tea" mam by our grand mothers. The growth and beauty of the hair depends on a healthy condition of th. scalp. Wyeth's .Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy quickly kills tlie dandruff g- m.- whlch rob the hair of its life. c olor and luster, makes the scalp .lean and healthy, glvea the hair strength, cob-r and beauty, and makes it g ow Get a GO-cent bottle from your diuc atiist today. 11. will giv. voui m. no if you ar. not satisiled afttr a f i ■Mdae Special agent.-. Elkin I- , - - ' Puzzle: Where Is That Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner? THE DAY AFTER THE FEAST / ~ / _“ i ( J ' aw O- ** O / (Cs ~ I BF jBHEni S- -A : \WflHk a wF /■ THiSHH&KKax \ WmiiHWr 77 -! I J < /hiss' ■. • u... -t tlBrW * x L*') \ X ■ t. i- ya 1 M * 7 / / \ * i J * 77 / DETECTIVES SEEK BURNERSDFCHOP Losses From Alleged Nightrid er Depredations Near Bain bridge Reach $20,000. BAINBRIDGE. GA., Nov. 29.—Detec tives. employed by tobacco growers of Decatur county, Georgia, and Gadsden county, Florida, are today investigating the burning of tobacco barns in these two counties this week. Losses from the fires are estimated at $20,000. Latest reports are that five tobacco barns were burned in Florida, near Quincy. Only two were burned in Georgia. They were on John E. Don alson’s farm, a few miles south of Fowlstown. Sheriff Emanuel went to the scene with bloodhounds, but the dogs failed to find the trail. No arrests have been made. The fires are said to be the outgrowth of a hitherto peaceful war between large and small owners of tobacco lands in this section, that has been in prog ress for three years. The barns burned belonged to what are known as "independent packers and growers.” There has been some dif ference between these ami the Farmrs Tobacco Protective association because the independents would not cut down the acreage one-half. Barn Burners Unknown. No one knows who did the burning. The crowd that burned barns in Flor ida fled toward Georgia, and those burning bards in Georgia were seen going toward Florida, mounted on horses, with guns. There were two ot the latter, but they were not identified. It i< unknown whether or not members of th? association had anything to do with tile burning. The leaders have always decried any violence. Some of the best ireople in Decatur county be long to tlte organization. They detest night-riding or any other unlawful acts. Some believ. a lawless element, apart from at.x organization is responsible for the fires. Officials are endeavoring to i orehend the guilty parties- To ,iy there is talk of a ma«s meeting to protect against such lawlessness. Mr. Donalson. owner of the barns burned in Georgia i strong card In today’s issue of The Searchlight, calling on ail people ci the county to help up hold law :.nj g| ji r ■T’.i.iuiM''JjMU THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 29. i£l2. Atlanta Eats 25,000 Lbs. of Thanksgiving Bird CITY’S TURKEY BILL $6,875 Atlanta’s turkey dinner weighed 25,000 pounds, dressed, not counting the stuffing and side-fixings, and it cost $6,875 at an average of 27 1-2 cents a pound. Those are the figures given out to day by the leading produce house in Broad street. “Everybody ate turkey yesterday,” said the head of the firm. “The de mand has been far ahead of last year and the supply rather short. There was hardly a turkey left in the market except for the ragtags and bobtails, the skinny birds which nobody cares to buy. Os course, every house has some of those, left on hand. "The Georgia turkey crop was fair, but most of our supply comes from Kentucky ami Tennessee, and the early rams there killed the young birds and shortened the crop. "And the meat business will have a slump for a day or two. It will be hot CAR REPAIRER ASKS $20,000 OF L. AND N. FOR LOSS OF LEG Asserting that the Louisville and Nash ville railroad is responsible for the loss of his leg through the carelessness of its employees, T. H. Griffin, a car inspector, instituted suit for $20,000 damages against the railroad company in city court today. Griffin told the court that he was or dered t<> inspect a coach that was about to be attached to a He said that he was standing on the bumpers when a switch engine pushed the coach into an other car. He said that his right foot was jammed between the bumpers and so badly mangled that it had to be ampu tated. BAR ASSOCIATION TO HOLD ANNUAL MEETING The annual meeting and banquet of the Atlanta Jjar association will be held on tomorrow evening at 7 o’clock, at Du rand's case. Congressman William G. Brantlev has accepted the association's invitation to deliver teh principal address. 'The association has been unusually ac tive the last year, and the reports of the officers am! cations committees, together I with the election of new officers for the ensuing year, will be matters of special interest. DAWSON MAN KILLS SELF WHILE WIFE IS IN ROOM DAW SOX. x., v eg \\ Sa . vote, nt fiiiwson. killed himself in llich land with a pistol today ythile In bed at the hotel His wife was in’the room at the time No cause Is known He was brother of 1; I. Saville, cashier of the Dawson Natienal bank. I turkey today, cold turkey tomorrow, ■ turkey hash the next day, turkey soup the day afterward. There's no end to a turkey, you know. “The convicts at the Federal prison ate turkey, too. The prison’s or der was for 1,000 pounds. Fort McPherson’s order for the soldiers' din ner was 1,500 pounds. The hospitals and orphanages in Atlanta used 1,000 pounds today. “But if you're talKing high prices, look at eggs. Fresh eggs are selling at 35 cents by wholesale today, which means’4s cents to the retail trade. How fresh? Why, in this kind of weather an egg is fresh for two or three weel« after it is laid. “The laws requiring cold storage eggs to be so branded has boosted the price of fresh hen fruit. People used to buy storage eggs, thinking they were fresh. Now, when they insist on fresh eggs the increased demand has put them at a premium. And the supply is short apt to stay so for a while.” NEGRESS KILLS WHITE MAN IN A SHOOTING GALLERY MONTGOMERY. ALA., Nov. 29. News reached here today that a young white man named Fuller was shot and killed in a, shooting gallery at Wetump ka last night by Ida Pruitt, a negro woman and ex-convict, who is under arrest. The woman used a target rifle. The shot entered Fuller’s neck, shat tering the "Adam’s apple.” He lived 30 . minutes. The woman claimed the kill ing was accidental. ; RAISES 177 BUSHELS OF CORN ON ONE ACRE i SAVANNAH. GA., Nov. 29.—The largest product of corn for a single I acre raised by a boy competing in the Savannah corn show and probably the best acre of corn raised in the state , this year, is the 177-bushel crop of ' Byron Bolton, of Sr ven county. Bolton is seventeen years old and lives near Zeigler. He made a net r piotit of $150.19 on his acre of corn. I —— CHILD CATCHES FIRE AT OPEN GRATE: DIES NEWARK, OHIO. Nov. 29.—Edith Merrill, aged five, daughter ot Danirt t Merrill, was burned to death at her home this morning Her clothing ~ caught tile from an open grate during the absence vs her mother. IEVELYN WHEN ON SLOT MACHINE MENACE Council Soon to Banish Devise Whose MoVo Is: Go Broke or Get Drunk. Continued From Page One. you know the method of play? It hasn t that insiduous delight of a poker game, where man matches his brain, his nerve and his skill against his fellow’s brain, nerve and skill. It has none of the glamour of the roulette table where a few dollars may become hundreds on a single turn of the wheel. It doesn’t even possess the pleasant bandinage of the dealer that has made hundreds smile as they were being robbed in a shell game. The player dVops a nickel in a slot. He pulls a lever. A series of pictures revolve. If the pictures appear in cer tain combinations he gets from 2 to 20 checks. The Checks can not be con verted into cash. They can be spent for nothing but beer and tobacco. But those combinations rarely come. When they do come a player can buy a dol lar’s worth of beer instead of the nickel’s worth he contemplated when he entered the saloon. The machine holds out but two alternatives. The player must either go broke or be as sured a “jag.” Where Do Wife and And Child Come In? Where does the wife profit in either case? How are the children made happier if the player wins than if he loses? On the winning combinations are written words that are supposed to tell the. fortune of the player. The first of these reads: “Your desire will be realized.” It’s not the desire of the waiting wife to welcome a sober, saving husband. It's not the desire of the children, perhaps longing for warm clothes, or a new toy, or a set of school books. The only desire that can be realized is a desire to return to a home where the wife shudders as she hears the lurching footstep, where no childish em brace greets the home-coming father, but where childish fear takes the place of childish kisses. “You will succeed where others fail,” reads another combination. No success can await this “piker” gambler. A man with brain so small as to play one of these devices with any’ other intent than “to pass the time away” can never know the flush of vic tory in any walk of life. His very playing dooms him to a life of strug gling and drudgery to keep body and soul together. "Prosperity awaits you,” says a third. “What prosperity? A prosperity that can buy only beers. A prosperity that can produce only a drunk. A pros perity that means that wife and chil dren must go hunry, while the father swills and staggers. "You will hear good news,” says a fourth. And the news will probably be infor mation imparted by a judge in a dark, dirty police court, where the player f M I nlyj, ' rIuI7 The best gift ill of all H I There isn’t a woman ® anywhere who wouldn’t ” ke more than delighted || toreceivea Victor- Victrola on Christmas. Victor-victroia xiv, $l5O This wonderful musi- Mahogany or oak , • , x • zl • i i cal instrument is the ideal Christmas gift and the wide range of prices puts it within reach of all—sls, $25, S4O, SSO, $75, SIOO, $l5O, S2OO. Don’t longer deny your family the pleasure derived from the Victor-Victrola. Stop in today and get a line on this ideal Christmas gift. Terms to suit your convenience can be arranged if desired. Phillips & Crew Co. 82-84-86 N, Pryor St. Frame Ordinance To Banish Machines The first step toward sending the nickel slot machines to the junk pile will be taken at the meeting of the council committee on legislation this afternoon. ’lhe committee will recom mend an ordinance to council barring the machines from locker clubs and near-beer saloons. The ordinance was | introduced in council some time ago by Councilman C. D. Knight. It has been approved by the police commit tee. Carlos H. Mason, chairman of the police commission, is known to be in favor of the abolition of the machines. On account of the legal technicalities he believes the simplest way to do it would be for council to pass the ordi nance prohibiting them in saloons and locker clubs. Chief Beavers and his policemen would do the rest. Saloon Men Have No Regrets. Near-beer saloon men themselves de clare that the machines should not be permitted. While the large manufac turing company that owns them gives the saloon men 25 per cent of the prof its, many of the saloon proprietors say they have allowed them in their places only in self-defense. Their competi tors had them and they were losing trade without them. • It develops that after endeavoring to comply with the law with all sorts of technical mechanism, the promoters of this gambling system have finally put out machines that are as pure gam bling devices as a roulette wheel. There is not even any of the cheap chewing gum in the late machines. In stead of the indicator showing what the result of the first play will be, every play is a gamble. Winnings For House Heavy. It is said that the plan showing what the winnings of the first nickel would be hurt business. One proprietor of a downtown saloon said that the winnings of the machine in his place averaged about $75 per week. Another said the profits from the machine in his place reached $125 a week. If these figures are near the average profits from the machine, the total an nual income from these machines would be nearer $500,000 than $200,000, the figures originally given as the total annual profits. The men who pay this profit by play ing the machines get nothing in return but the excitement of gambling. stands with the other “drunks.” "Ten days” will be the news. The last legend reads, “You were born under a lucky star.” And there is probably truth in the last. "Only fools are lucky,” says the proverb and when the player reads the letters of this com bination lie can braiji himself as others have already branded him—a fool of fools. But just as society protects its own from the terrible bondage of poisonous drugs, so it has striven to protect its weak from the lure of gambling, and so in Atlanta, it will wipe out this menace —a menace that is not even a gamble, for there is no chance. It is all cer tainty—certainty of wretchedness on one side and profits, h.uge and untold, on the other. That vision of the empty Christmas stocking will dissolve in a thousand homes when council does its duty and abolishes this illegal and inexcusable gambling trap. And council will. PRISONERS IN TOWER THANK JAILERS FOR THANKSGIVING FEAST William Young Howard, who was re turned from Toronto - Canada, on charges brought by the Buick Automo bile Company, acting today for ii le prisoners confined in the Tower, issued a card of thanks for the splendid Thanksgiving dinner furnished the pris oners by Sheriff Mangum and for the generous treatment by tile jailers. lie made special mention of the sys tematic manner in which the big din. ner was handled by Inside Jailer Wilev Roberts. In his card, Howard makes a special plea to the Men and Religion movement loaders to visit the jail and talk with the prisoners, saying this would carry sunshine and cheer to many gloomy hearts. a- |"One Minute from P«achtree"| SILK Neckwear SALE SATURDAY 37c EACH 3 For SI.OO One hundred dozen of these beautiful Silk Tie«, and not one in the lot worth less than 50c. On sale tomorrow (Saturday) at 37c, or 3 for SI.OO. Buy Your Xmas Ties Now ALLEN M? PIERCE “Men’s Dept. Store” | 16 Marietta St. ATLANTA THEATER TONIGHT 8:15 LAST TIME BEST COMED IN YEARS Henry W. Savage Presents EXCUSE ME 25c, 50c, 75c, SI.OO and $1.50. nWSNh kdth Mat. rodarj.3o VAUDEVILLE Tonight S:3O A REAL SHOW next week tom NAWN & COMPANY Mclntyre Kate EHnore & Sam Williams & JULIET? Heath Lo Tosca Mullen (j Coogan an< j Bia 3 Escardos The Shillings bhow I FORSYTH BUNTING I This Week—Tues., Thura., Sat. Mat:. LITTLE EMMA BUNTING —Playing In — MARY ANN” Next Week—“LOVERS LANF” - _ LYRIC TH WEEK j Matinees Tuesday, Thursday a ntl I Saturday “The Shepherd of the Dramatized From Harold Be Wright’s Novel. Next Week “Happy Hoohgar- NIGHTS «: 15 I VR IC M * TS MVS - 2 30 X'ext Week I ” HAPPY HOOLIGAN ALL NEW THIHTV-r!VE GIWl* —r-