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SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS ON GEORGIA POLITICS | BY JAMES B. NEVIN. : ,ry of State Phil Cook leaves • rrow for Lake Charles, La., where / .- to testify as to the color of title F- • '.j : J claimed, by ertain parties in / M ,. t. tgom ery I count' Georgia. t undu an old so- > ad right 1 .. by tlie state 1 court of land J grant back in ■ 1794 Tita land court j must have been a famous ano ruin I old coiirt, ail right! jf it wasn’t compotsedofa lot of first-class ers and || crook:, it went through the mo- .. . o: the same in amazing good. (■rder' •• specific case in which Secretary t ,, p will testify is that of one James s , _an enterprising person, who, ■p 1794. undertook to annex an entire f.. ~rg.. county, in -spite of a law which "head right'’ to 1,000 acres, shorter had away of having pt n wjf made out a grant for 1,000 ,•. “hounded and abutted by the ..-.is of tlie said Shorter,” and . i; . .is all the description there was to it. Win.- sort of ‘‘rake off” the honorable • i; ;d court got for issuing these grants by th.: basketful to Shorter nobody n 0;.... . y.-> knows, but it must have been andy pickings, anyway! a while. Shorter accumulated ji, Montgomery county grants to a pal ■■■'. 1. si.onO acres of land —and that ..... going some, too, when one consid , tint there were only 1,400,000 acres li. t lie entire county. 11,. old Shorter managed to overlook ...i..lining little cotton patch fur i.bhes food for thought. IP cud by. the legislature of the state ■d these old fake "l»ead right” ..r. .... and few people in the last 50 have undertaken to realize any thing on them. . . . .y little bit. however, some swin <: r gets hold of a "grant,” trades It <.■ •omiethlng or other—and then the r. tary of the state of Georgia has to explaining how the "grant” worth the paper it is written on. . alive Secretary Hardy Ulm has .'ii digging around in old state papers on,- sort and another of late, and of tiie things he has turned up more than ordinarily Interesting. \mong other things he ran across ■ ently is an old agreement between I. Pierpont Morgan and Jeremiah Mili nk. on the one hand, and the Macon Brunswick railroad on the other, thereby Morgan and Millbank agree to become trustees for the bonds of the oad to tlie extent of $150,000. The in •tr unent is dated September 1, 1869. J. Pierpont Morgan’s signature to the agreement was the thing that particu larly attracted Ulrn's eagle eye. He got blank bank chepk, filled it out for nillion or so, and carefully attached Horgan’s signature to the bottom Hereof. IL said lie had no idea of attempting w sh the near-check, but he wanted how one like that would look. tiie state pension lists there are CONDEMNED ITALIAN INFORMS ON SLAYERS OF SLEUTH PETROSINO 'I"VI'REAL. QUEBEC, Dec. 13. ' Baptista, an Italian who is to be i hwe on December 20 for mur i confessed to the police that - one of the gang that plotted tht - ■niution of Joseph Petrosino, the "us New York detective who was to death in Palermo, Sicily, on .''lurch 12, 19U9. 1 prisoner revealed the names of o other members of the Camorra engineered the assassination. He they had deserted him and refused, ■•ntribute for his defense and he t* 1 them hunted down. J- L. DICKEY EXECUTORS SELL TUXEDO PARK LOTS 'lr-. Gertrude J. Dickey. E. J. Dickey, L. Dickey, Jr., and Eugene Dick ' ■ executors of the estate of the late w Dickey, have sold to Charles M. ■ten the southeast corner of lot 9 Tuxedo park subdivision. Paces ’"ad, for $6,910. The lot is 256 x "w-x220.5x600 feet. They received 5 1 ‘4O cash. same executors sold to the same . for $2,000. a parcel on Tuxedo at the northwest corner of lot 6, 11 *»£ 200x356.5x220.5x360.3. - - ne T. Candler has given to John vV illiams et al. papers of transfer property on the south side of •■ •end avenue, land lot 19, Inman ! '5x230, for SI,OOO. NEGRO SAVES LIFE OF YOUNG WHITE WOMAN ;J '■'i'ANNAH, GA., Dec. 13.---Miss Cannon attributes the fact that alive to the bravery of Sam Gar i negro. ■ | ' s ' I 'annon was playing with the hild of her sister-in-law, Mrs. J. •tley. when her clothing caught om an open grate. The girl ran th' hall, when she attempted to uer the flames with a heavy por f‘ailing in this, she ran screaming ' the yard. negro, who had been attracted by pulled the burning clothing Mi“.-- Gannon's body. Both Miss 'Hou and the negro were badly ned, but both will recover. now 32 new names that everybody will approve of heartily. ! They are 32 blind Confederate sol diers who, under an act passed by the last legislature, have had their pen sions increased from S6O per annum to SIOO. | About 800 new names were added to the pension roll this year, by reason of the new law and otherwise—but these 32, somehow, will seem a little more welcome to the state’s pittance than any of them, of course. i Solicitor General Joseph E. Pottle’s friends throughout Georgia will be pleased to learn that he is rapidly con valescing in a local sanitarium from an acute illness, necessitating a slight op eration, for which he has been under treatment for the past ten days. Solicitor Pottle is the brother of Judge Robert N. Pottle, of the state court of appeals, and is personally one of the most popular and widely known men in Georgia. Joseph R. Wilson, the "kid brother” | of President-elect Woodrow Wilson, is a newspaper man of Nashville, and has numerous friends and acquaintances in Georgia. He is a most likeable chap, and his friends in Nashville are giving him a "hoodoo dinner” in the Tennessee capi tal tonight, byway of evidencing their friendship, and because—well, because he is the next president’s brother, and isn t a bit “swell headed” about, even if he is Immensely proud of it. This "Friday, 13, hoodoo dinner” is to be a “josh banquet"—whatever that is, exactly—so the announcements say, and it will be participated in by about 200 of young Wilson’s friends and ac quaintances throughout the Volunteer state. All the ancient and honorable “Fri day, 13,” superstitions will be played upon for “the kid brother’s’’ benefit — and the president-elect himself is to come in for a lot of good-natured banter. That Fioyd county is in dead earnest about enforcing the state prohibition law is abundantly attested in the fact that Judge Maddox has sent four well known white men convicted of violating the law to the county chaingang for long terms this year, and that without the alternative of a fine. Two of these mbn—one of them at one time quite a prominent political in fluence in Floyd—went to the '‘gang” without protest, but the other two car ried their eases to tlie court of appeals. In a batch of decisions handed down recently, however, the appeals court af firmed the lower court’s findings and sentences, and now these defendants must join the other two in the Floyd county convict road camp. Judge Maddox announced that he would impose chaingang sentences in the future, in the event defendants were convicted by juries of violations of ths prohibition law, and he has more than kept his word thus far. Captain Harry P. Meikleham, the mayor-town council-police-force-su preme court-justice of the peace-and lord-high-everything-else of Lindale, came to Atlanta last night to attend a banquet to’General Clifford Ander son at the Capital City dub Captain Meikleham is one of the most enthusiastic officers of the Geor gia National Guard and is particularly fond of General Anderson, under whom he served for several years. ROOSEVELT. BACK IN NEW YORK. WILL GET DOWN TO REAL WORK NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—Unrecognized by a large crowd in the Grand Central depot and greeted only by a few news paper men and two relatives, Theodore Douglas Robinson, his son, Douglas Rob inson. and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt arrived at 9:21 a. m„ from Chicago, where the colonel was the dominating figure at the two-day organization convention of the Progressive party. The colonel, smiling and looking in the best of health, waved his hand at the newspaper men and shouted that he felt "bully,” but refused to comment on the Bull Moose convention. "Nothing to say. Nothing to say at all,” he said, “except that I’m going right up to Tlie Outlook office and get down to work.” i STRIKERS CAUGHT TRYING TO DYNAMITE RY. TUNNEL HACKENSACK. N. J., Dee. 13. Strikers were discovered attempting to dynamite a shaft leading to the Erie tunnel, near Edgewater, N. J., today, and were fired upon by deputy sheriffs and railroad detectives guarding the coal pockets and yards of the Erie and the New York and Susquehanna rail roads. The strikers returned the fire, but no one was Injured. ■ GRAND JURY WILL HEAR NEW DARROW EVIDENCE LUS ANGELES. Dec. 13. —A special grand jury to hear new evidence against Clarence S. Darrow, attorney alleged to have bribed jurors in the McNamara trial, will be empaneled soon at the request of District Attorney John D. Fredericks. Cleveland Dam, a San Francisco attorney, will be one of the witnesses. It is expected he will be questioned about a SIO,OOO check given Olaf Tveitmoe by Darrow. ADELAIDE THURSTON TO AID SANTA CLAUS FUND SAVANNAH, GA., Dec. 13.—50 eager I is she to make her two Santa Claus benefit fund performances in this city next Tuesday a big success that Miss Adelaide Thurston has telegraphed her willingness to sell souvenir programs in the lobby of th" theater before eacn performance. itiK ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1912. STATIONERY DRUG CO. I THREE "STAR” SPECIALS While planning to get your eshS i 1181 IBbI/abT laSll FREE to every lady who makes ■ hrlstmas present, don t forge' r IH jflßf/ BHI ■ « piir, 'mm- i. ■■or !■■ rom. F'eiart- STATIONERY. Our stock is J SWI iWW 1 MM! 8 I _ ment <Saturday only) of 31 or wonderfully complete. Nothing ! 1 8/gaßSf mHi ISHF 1 fin !• *• more, a beautiful box of Face makes a more appropriate gift than 1 W| M IBS 3fia j VV. KCMMOzHIOA Powder. Raw t Iw II l I :===_ ar:S nu IIIIHHIWn " ■ ftnen All Niffht Hll e , iLiUnet a th d e ’^r° C c k <>u!d In not Ve be * VpCll Mil IX I§i| T every lady who on Saturday pur° Improved upon - Branch Store: GRAND PHARMACY, Grand Theater Bldg. " ” c A Dollar Spent at Elkin’s Gets As Much As Two Dollars Elsewhere We have the goods. Our prices are right. We make a fair profit- That's all we ask. That’s all anybody should ask. Our line of Holiday Goods is complete in every respect. It is varied to suit every taste and every pocketbook. We have toys, perfumes, candies, toilet articles, stationery, fountain pens, kodaks, razors, scissors, manicure sets, toilet sets, rubber goods—in fact, any and everything that heart could wish. W These Prices Are Also Good at Our Branch Store, the GRAND PHARMACY, and Are tor Saturday Through Monday THERE’S NO GIFT NICER THAN A FOONTAIN PEN tsl pOM g | “The Present With a Future” I Wj»Jeman!s k Ideal ] g I FbunU&jPen ■ We are agents for the ■ t celebrated Wator ma n Mbs ’NBA Fountain Pen, which is known the world over. We have this pen in all styles and sizes. Come in and make a se lection. We have pens for Christmas gifts for men and women. A Fountain Pen is just the thing to give as a holiday gift. We have the Waterman at $2.50 and up. We also sell the Rexa.ll $1 Pen. It is handy and gives splendid satisfaction to those who do not care to spend more than a dollar for a pen. It writes smoothly, never clogs, and is guaranteed for a year. With careful han dling. it should last a longtime. We also have Rexall Pens up to $5 in price. They are self fillers. Holiday Towels P-ight now we are closing out our large stock of Turkish and Irish Linen Towels. You can get genuine bargains In our TOWEL DE PARTMENT. These towels are extra large and guaranteed to give satisfaction. 50c value ....35c each 1 $1.25 value ...98c each $1 value ...,76c each I $1.50 value .$1.15 each Scissors Sets f Nothing pleases a woman more than the possession of a good pair of scissors. A pair of scissors, or a set, such as we carry in stock, make a most appropriate gift for the holidays. We have a set for use in the Library. It consists of a large pair of scissors and a paper knife. Each is made from the best imported steel. The handles are hand somely engraved. The make is the famous Henckel's, than which there is none better. Once you possess the set you’ll wonder how you were able tb get along without it. We have other cases containing two, three, four and even five pairs of scissors of differ ent sizes. These are put up in beautiful leather cases, plush lined. Some of the scis sors have handles silver and gold enameled. They make splendid presents. Sets from $1.25 to SIO.OO SPECIALS FOR SATURDAY Through Monday $1 Listerine 59c 50c Bromo Seltzer 34c 50e Hinds’ Honey and Almond Cream . . 33c 25c Lyon's Tooth Powder 14c 50c Pebeco Tooth Paste ... . 29c 25c Kolynos Tooth Paste 17c 25e Daggett Ramsdell’s Cold Cream... 17c 35c Java Rice Powder 29c 10c Palm Olive Soap 8c 25c Packer’s Tar Soap 15c 25c Frostilla 17c 25c Dioxogen 17c 50c Dodson’s Liver Tore 34c 50c California Syrup of Figs 340 $1 Pinkham’s Compound 69c $1 Wine of Cardui 59c 35c Castoria 23c 25c Eagle Brand Milk 15c $1 Horlick’s Malted Milk.7sc; 50c size. . . ,37c 50c Swamp-Root, 36c; $1 size 72c 50c Pape’s Diapepsln 36c 25c Laxative Bromo Quinine 14c 25c Carter’s Pills ... • 13c J18.R.8 59c $1 Quaker Herb Extract 67c 25c Simmons’ Liver Regulator (powder form) 17c 25c Sloan’s Liniment 17c Cascarets 9c, 21c and 42c $1 Scott’s Emulsion. 69c; 50c size . 34c 50c Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Hair Tonic 36c 50c Parisian Hair Tonic 38c 25c Danderlne, 17c; 50c size 37c $1 Herplcide Hair Tonic. 75c; 50c size 37c 25c Sal Hepatlca, 19c; 50c size 39c; and $1.25 size 99c TOYS Novelties TOYS I ! Here's something new and worthwhile. We have a big stock ’5K* of the famous Steiff toys ami nov elties. We have dogs eats, ducks. JyllH Dutch girls, dolls, sheep, monkeys WHMM and various other animals made WHM up in a new material. They are wonderfully life-like and are certain to be more than .satisfactory . The children will be pleased beyend measure with those novelties. They are light, easily handled and last well. They are difficult to tear up. Some of them are jointed and can he made to assume all manner of amusing positions. If you are looking for some thing out of the ordinary to give your little boy or girl, come to ELKIN'S and take a look at our stock of these Steiff novelties. They are made in Germany. The prices are mighty reasonable, too. Most anybody’s pocketbook can reach them. They range from 25c to $5.00. Ivory and Ivoryold Goods Our line, of these beautiful goods is the most elaborate in the city. All the sets are attractive and well worth having. They consist of nail brush, tooth brush, nail file, nail seissoils. buffers, etc., put up in a nice box of Ivory or Ivoryoid. Price's: $3.50, $4.50 and $5.00 per set. Also have traveling cases for gentlemen with the shaving brush, tooth brush, etc., put up in a leather case, silk lined. Prices: $2.75, $3.00, $3.50 and $4.00. Manicure sets put up especially for the pocket, complete. SI.OO, $1.25, $1.50, $2.00 and $3.00. Christmas Candy We have just bought a full TON of the finest candies in the world for our Holiday trade. We do not handle any candies that are not of known quality. 80 Cents a Pound Is the price of Park & Til- ford’s and Liggett’s Chocolates. You may search the whole world over and you’ll never find candies with a better reputation. These makes are known every where. And they sell for 80 cents a pound. Why pay 80 cents a pound for candies of unknown quality when for the same price you can get fl Bonbons Cf Chocolates Park & Tilford's Liggett's Chocolates These are the candies you know are good. When you make a present of a box of Park & Tilford’s or Liggett’s, the person to whom you send the gift knows there’s none better--that you have bought the best that could be had anywhere. You can’t afford to give your sweetheart, your wife, your mother or your sister any candy but the best. They know the difference. We have these candies put up in beautiful Holiday boxes and baskets. Come to Elkin's for .your Christmas Candies. Barr’s Saturday Candy is equal to any of the candies which sell for 40 cents a pound. We sell quantities of it every week. It’s fresh as the moment it came from the manufacturer. Put up in pretty boxes and OQ tied with dainty ribbon. One pound to the box e&JJC Free Gifts for Elkin’s Customers Be sure to read our ad. in Sunday’s papers. It will tell you all about gift-giving day at our branch store, THE GRAND PHARMACY, on Mon day. On that day every purchaser of goods at the branch store will be presented with a bag containing a number of very useful articles. This will be the greatest gift-giving event in the history of the Elkin stores. \ Manicure Sets I I jiU..i - o' T L.. ■ -» . We also have fine Manicure Sets, the sort that appeal to every woman of refinement. Some of these sets are made to fit In the pocket. They are put up In small cases. They are compact and contain all the neces sary anl' les. Larger sets contain from three to ten different articles. We have these Man icure Sets marked lower than at any pre vious Christmas. Prices from SI.OO to $20.00 Usefol Gifts at Small Prices Solid steel embroidery scissors. ... ~soc Manicure scissors 50c Nail files ... ...25c Household scissors ■ ..75c Nall buffers 25c Thermos Bottles SI.OO to $3.75 Thermos lunch sets ...$2.60 to $3.75 Gillette safety razor, complete 55.00 Auto safety razor, complete with strop..ss.oo Ever-ReadJ- safety razor SI.OO Gem. Jr., safety razor SI.OO Ender’s safety razor SI.OO Durham Duplex safety razor, 35c. $2.50, $5.00 and $7.50 Shaving- mirror SI.OO Good razor strop, $2.00 value .. 97c Shaving mug 25c Pocketknife, pearl handle. Henckel’s steel. 75c to -.55.00 Cigar ash tray, hammered copper, $1.50 to $3.25 Flasks ... ...50c to $2.50 Ideal brushes, $1 value 59c We have a complete fine of these brushes up to $350 Military brushes, pair SI.OO to $7.00 Leather cases for military hair brushes, 50c and 750 Shaving brushes 25c to $3.50 Ever-Ready electric flashlight (pocket size) Other electric flashlights. .750, $1.90 and $2.10 German nickel clock, with month and day Metal frames for photographs . 500 Face chamois skin ,5o to $2.50 SAVE HALF YOUR MONEY We are making a 50 per cent reduction in all our Leather Goods. We have hand satch els, pocketbooks, money folders, coin purses, etc., all of which are going at half the orig inal price. Come in and get some of these great bargains. It will pay you to do so. Tourists’ Cases i I I / For a serviceable gift there’s nothing bet ter than a Tourist Case. We have a fine line of them. They are rubber lined and have compartments for each individual article. They are covered prettily with material hav ing a flower design and tied with ribbon. Tourist Case 63c Same, larger, regular $1.50 value 89c Same, silk cover, extra compartments; $2.50 value $1.97 We also have Wash Cloth Cases to match for 230 A Fine Watch For A 97c W- SPtkiAi U 5 B))i Here is an excellent timepiece, one which will prove of real value and give perfect sat isfaction to the owner. It Is the Rexall Watch and comes in three styles—gun met al, nickel and Imitation gold. It keeps excel lent time and can be depended upon. This is a first-elass bargain. aw Remember, this watch sells wB # for ** • ** 15