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2 VOCALISTS TO SID IN CONCERT FDR ■ FUND Triple Band Will Be Feature of Big Musical at the Grand Theater Sunday. By Evelyn Wren Nothing since flu* Empty Stock in;.; Fund was opened has proniis- -I , :*-h a •übvtantial addition to the fund .-»• th* offer of Atlanta musician.- to giv<- c whole Sunday afternoon foi tin poor children. The < *»n< **rt n*\t Sunday J: ernoon at the Grand should fill the oik theater easily and bring in a h •*’ "* money to buy Christmas gifts f->; t! hundreds of little folks a • • • \ • would be forgotten on ‘ ’ .1: •;».»*• •»>•?»- ing. Since the annoui- • ion ' • • • ,r tae Sunday concert tl* (‘hiistma* Ed itor has r < *dved numerous off* ." <d , assistance by tab n‘ed sing* is. and :h* complete program soon " ill be run.* I public. Miss \iarghei ita '‘art* ..0 piom-| Is d to sing, and “Th* Singing Mai tin " a grand opera act, will giv*- s<-\ - ! * ral numticjs. To Martin- a • Jig , in? at th" Montgomery thcato bat Mr. Murtgo ir iy , iitr-nt*- mu • 10 p< 1- ' m’t them to a?i < • at Tlu • morgifin concert. Record Rand to Play. T e band will be t ?:«- biggest and best v i« h has played in Atlanta in years | It will, in fact, bo thr* bands <om- I bined, tin F ifth regiment, under <'. E. j B. .her: the Waderrmi» 1. under l-'red | Wi demeytr. con .u-to., and Matthi* - . sen's combined band and <u< h>- tra, un- ‘ de.- Jake Matt’li"-s< n. 'rhe three ‘'<Hl-| du tors will l’.u tin- triph i»*ud foi I two numb* " < ac’i. Th? concert was offered for the fund by i’.h- local union of E the Xmerican !■’< deration of Mmivian% find the use of toe Grand is given fre»* of Charge by Manager Hugh t’ardoza. Every cent contributed by the audit n ••*• ' will go toward making hundreds of poor 1 children happy on Christmas morning I just a week from today. No tickets v ill bo sold. All who <-oine I will be Welcome, bur a coih-ction will be taken and • vet' auditor is . spirted to ; contribute .something, a little or .1 lot, to help fill the atockingv next Wedn*- v du\. Let’s Make Every Kiddie Happy You who crawled out of a rosy bed this morning and 'coked out from a warm room into th rain o its.de said to yourselves : “Nasty, dreary Gloomi. 1 .\< i •n \v ’ ” Hut it wax not half so gloomy and , cheerless as next Wednesday morning ! will be to the children whose stockings 1 hang empty by the chimney ; the uhil- | dren whom Santa <’laUs forgot The <’hriMma« Editor has re< • ived more than $l,lOO- to help brighten th* day for the!*** little bi others ami slst* i s of all of us, but the list of the poor is a long one—longer than the list of con tributions Mor*- is needed- a great deal more—to carry happiness on Christmas morning to the children the Christmas Editor knows. Filling Empty Stockings Now. Rut a few days emain. Thr Christ mas shopping for the Empty Sto* kings has begun. The packages must be mad up next Monday and Tuesday. After that it will be too late. The list of contributors still is open, and the Christmas Editor would like to add a hundred names to it today ami another hundred each day this week. A letter with a check or a note will be the best wax ; a telephone message to i.’e Christmas Editor Is next best. NO FIREWORKS SOLD IN DALTON THIS CHRISTMAS DALTON, GA.. Dec. 18 Foi thcl first time in the cit>'s history, no 10. a.! | 'iherchan- is offering fireworks for -ale I during the Chiistnu.s holldaj - in re vising Qie license fee ordinance earl, in the spring th< tax f<> selling fie work* was put at an cxwssiv. figure and all efforts on the part of dealers to get the license reduced hate faile.’. The city council further insists .hut there will he no fireworks displays her. to celebrate < 'hrlst.nas this year The city has an ordinance of long standing against the shooting of fireworks with in the city limits, but h.retofo e tin ban has always been lifted on Christ inas and Jul> 4. NEGRO SLAYER. NOT YET 15. SENTENCED FOR 15 YEARS MACON. GA.. !>.. IS. Gus How.,' a negro boy not yet fifteen years old j and very diminutive in size, must serve ’ fifteen yea s in the penitentiary for | killing another boy of his ago s. v. rat month, ago. lie is the youngest de fendant ever tried in Bibb county f.>r murder, and it was only the recom mendation of the jury that obtained the reduced sentence for him. While asleep in a chair another boy poured a pitcher of water down his ba. k ; Awakening, Brown opened his knife and stabbed the boy to death. SHORT COLLEGE HOLIDAYS. MACON, GA. Dec. 18. The .oil leges in Macon will have comparatively I short holidays for Christmas this \ Mercer university close- on l>ec<-m-i her 20 and resumes on January 2 W. s 'eyan will begin its holiday -ea-on t“- | morrow, reopening the day aft,- New i T ear’s PEDESTRIANS ATLANTA BOUND DALTON. GA.. De. , 18. H < Lignt- | foot, aged 23 years, an.! N Sound' - aged 19. the young pedestrians who on December 8 left Nashville, Telit... so hike around the world, spent y.-i. day I bare, leaving this morning tor Atlant . ‘ Contributions to The Georgian's Christmas Fund T'i< • ■ nt ■ Umt'< fib t.» Tm <;eo.g:an w I Emp;\ Storking F’uml a *• is follows Guy Edwards’ Girls and boys $ 127.91 W. R. Hearst 100.00 J. M. Slaton 25.00 F. J. Paxon 25.00 R. F. Maddox 25.00 Forrest Adair 25.00 iJ. W. English 25.00 ; John E. Murphy 25.00 W, T. Gentry 25.00 I George Adair 25.00 Joel Hurt 25.00 W. H. Glenn 25.00 E. H. Innian . 25 00 Harold S. Holmes 25.00 A Friend 25.00 J. B. Cleveland 25.00 Mrs. J. B. Whitehead 25.00 George M. McKenzie 25.00 Lindsey Hopkins 25.00 H. C. Worthen 15.00 Scherer Lunch . . . . 10.00 W. L. Peel 10.00 { James Lynch 10.00 John W. Grant . . 10.00 Henry Durand 10.00 Mrs. J. M. Slaton 10.00 Mrs. E. L Connally 10.00 Oscar Elsas 10.00 Charles C. Jones 10.00 Carlos Mason 10.00 A. G. Rhodes & Son 10.00 ! Mrs. Joseph M. Brown 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. John F. Kiser 10.00 Morris Brandon 10.00 Ira Steiner 10.00 R. J. Guinn 5.00 ■ E. P. Ansley . . 5.00 , E. C. Peters 5.00 i M. L. Thrower 5.C0 S. B. Turman 5.00 Mrs. Robert Maddox . . 5.00; I. H. Oppenheim . 5.C0 1 Joseph A. Willingham 5,00 ; Mrs. J. M. High . 5.C0 Mrs. George McKenzie 5.00 ■ Mrs. P. H. AiSccn 5.0 C M. H. Wdensky 5.00 A Friend 5.00 ’ J. K. Ottley . 5.0 C ; J. S. Akers . 5.00 > Clifford L. Anderson 5.00 i Dr. E. G. Ballenger 5.00 Chief J. L. Beavers S.CC Marion Jackson 5.00 A Friend . . 5.00 Dr. George Brown 5.00 I J. P. Allen 5.00 Robert L. Cooney 5.00 i Reuben R. Arnold 5.00 Marion Cobb Bryan and Flor- ence Jackson Bryan. Jr.. 5.0(1 Charles J. Haden 5.00 > Howard Pattillo 5.00 J. K. Ottley . . 5.00 Daniel W. Rountree 5.00 J. K. Orr . . . . 5.00 Charles C Thorn 5.00 W. E. Chapin 5.00 C. E. Sciple 5.00 Spencer Wallace Boyd 5.00 J. B. Hockaday 5.00 ooole & McCollough 5.00 James G. Woodward 5.00 Thomas C. Biggs (Velie Mo- tor Company) . . 5.00 Charles A. Smith 5.00 George 8. Obear . 5.00 Robert T. Small 5.00 C. E. Marshall . 5.00 C. D. Bidwell . . . . 5.00 Willis Ragan 5.00 Arnold Broyles . . 5.00 B. Lee Crew 5.00 Mrs. B. C. Cochran 5.00 Hugh Richardson 5.00 J. J. Disosway , 5.00 Shelby Smith 2.50 Eugene R. Black 2.00 Dr. T. B. Hinman 2.00 Mrs. W. S. Elkin 2.00 Olive and Frances Marion 2.00 Anonymous . 2.00 M. H. Liebman . 2.00 A Friend . 2.00 R. S. Wessels . 2.00 A Fr iend . . . , 2.50 In Memory of a Boy ... 2.00 M. B. Young . 2.00 Julian V. Boehm 2.00 L. P. Nash 2.00 Two Believers in Santa 2.00 Mrs. Bolling Jones 1.00 H. H. Cabaniss . .. 1.00 Helen Lucile Dickson 1.00 ■ Meyer Pegenstein 1.00 Mrs. A. E. Thornton 1.00 Hortense Adams, Jr 1.00 Albert S. Adams I,QO Constance Adams i.oq A Friend 1.00 Miss Lucile LaHatte 1 00 Mary S. Connally 1.00 Margaret Massengale 1.00 A Friend . . 1.00 M iss Crush 1.00 A Friend 1.00 Miss Emilie Liebman .. .. 1.00 A Friend 1,00 Dr. A. H. Van Dyke 1.00 J. E. McClelland . . 1.00 J. R. Nutting I.QQ ! I. N. Ragsdale 1.00 A. J. Johnson 1.00 J. J. Greer . 1.00 j Dr. C. J. Vaughan 1.00 Albert D. Thomson 1.00 D J. Baker 1.00 , C. W. Smith 1.00 i Roy Abernathy 1.00 1 Claude C. Mason . . . . . . . I.CO C. D. Knight 1.00 F. J, Spratling . . 1.00 J. W. Maddox ... 1.00 Jesse M. Wood 1.00 J. H. Andrews .... 1.00 Aldine Chambers 1.00 S. A. Wardlaw ... 1.00 John S. Candler 1.00 J. D. Sisson 1.00 W. G. Humphrey . .. 1.00 Orville H. Hall 1.00 Dr. A. H. Baskin 1.00 I J. E, Warren 1.00 ! George H. Boynton 1.00 W. D. Ellis. Jr. 1.00 Ormond Massengale . .. 1.00 St. Elmo Massengale. Jr 1.00 Friend E. . 1.00 Julia Lowry Meador 1.00 I A Friend 1.00 ! Judge Broyles 1.00 I Chessie Lagomarsmo, Jr. . . 1.00 In Memo r y of a Little Niece 1.00 W. A. Bowman . 1,00 , J. B. Ramev .50 i Merryman Cross .25 Total $1,148.66 0. N. McCullough, box Indian River or anges. Bell Bros., barrel of applet. ‘Broyles’ Store, Bex of oranges IHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER/18, 1912. ®5 RUSH ON ATPDSTOFFIDE Officials Do Not Expect Con gestion This Year. Despite Heavy Business. ‘ f i.-tni: place in Atlan- ta to*. .' burring ile’jartrnent sto.*s .md T..» urts *»f « -n. is the big known as the Atlant;' ’-‘otoHli- A spirit of bustle, unusual » \"n to that busy place, is in eviden* e thr*a;<<i *jiit tL" building, w hile tin- ap j<*-aranc* of mail carriers as they stag into the mailing rooms with great 'jeks bulging t.iii packages am! b-t --l»-i stamped with Ked Cross seals L'-'v a -/ A / ■ p rawr - • rISSsmIW <- T’ Jr 11 ACS X . » I ([ ’llk ) iii iS if » \ Zi ■ • ’j-J Mis,. Amiie Mae Wingate selling Keil Cross seals. shows that something unusual is on hand. But. in spite «»i the hurry and tur moil, the postoflh’e m ver has been in bettor position to handle the holiday rush, and As\-i>H;uit Postmaster (.’ole believes that th» r- will be no conges tion this year. New men are added to each department as the rush warrants the addition, and more than 5o substi tutes are waiting to help when the time conns. The money order department is one of the busiest in the building. From morning until latt at night a constant line of people stand in front, eager to either send money to relatives or friends in other < ities or countries or to receive a little needed help from the main exchequer in some other city. Surveyor of Customs Markham is surrounded with Ht range gifts from al most « very country in the world, .tad his attempt to appraise their dutiable value is bringing muiv gray haira to his head. Silks from ('hina and India, strange Images, wonderful (Tedions in ivory from Africa, strung* perfumes from Japan things he never has before either seen or imagined all go to make him one of the hardest worked men in the government s i vice din ing the hol iday s. MACON CITY GOVERNMENT TO COST 5523.000 IN 1913 M \< ( ».\. GA.. !>ee. I: , mo e than $500,000 to run the city govern ment of Macon each year. The budget lor 1913 as adopted last night by coun cil provides f■; appropriations in the total sum of $523,000. Few salary raises were allowed by council, but tin various departments received Increased appro priations. COURT nF APPEALS OF GEORGIA Argued and Submitted. Atlantic Coast lane Railroad Company vs MeElmurrsy Bros ; from Richmond Georgia Iron and Coal Company vs. Rogers. Brown <'o.; from Fulton First National Bank of Senoia vs C. I’ Jones, et al., from Fayette Rountree A. Leak vs W R. Craigmiles. from Thomas \rthur Mclntosh vs. R. Patton: from : Walton. Augusta-Aiken Railway and Electric Corporation vs I'the! Sibert: from Rich | mend I Georgia Railroad vs. John Hunter: from Richmond. D J Lewis vs W. R Harris, marshal: from Ware J. L o’Dowd vs C. C. Newham from Richmond <’. H McCrary vs L. J. Henry: from Fult<n. Georgian Company vs. Robert Shulman; from Fulton Elyea-Austell Company vs Jackson Garage, from Hutts. E. A. Fincher vs C L. Redman: Troni Butts. Southern Railway Company vs Monroe Myrick. from Hutt- J W Gillesp e vs. G. M Bucoll Pecan Company; from Dougherty. AV A Mathews vs T \ Fields sher iff from Emanuel. Society Girls Continue War on White Plague GOAL IS 600,000 SEALS Av;.,- Ww ' lsr / 1 CAPTAIN MOSELEY. OLDEST MACON POLICEMAN, BURIED l MACON, GA.. Doo. 18. — In the fu -3 neral today of Captain Warren P. • Moseley, who was t l '* oldest member of ‘ the Macon police force, one of the most ’ picturesque figures of the city is laid to rest. Captain Moseley had been in ac tive police service for 4o years and was ? conspicuous on the streets by reason of i the number of medals worn by him. 1 Frequently the front of his coat would be literally covered with medals, many r of which were awarded him for distin c ? guisiied service in the war of the six ties. He was 75 years of age. i' | DEATHS AND FUNERALS' John A. Corbally. . Tlie funeral of John A. Corbally, the • contractor. who .lied Tuesday. will be s held tills afternoon sit 3 o'clock in St . Anthony* Catholic ehureb in West End. , Key Father Jackson will conduct the services. Interment will be in West -1 view. Henry Leuhrmann. Hi'iU'j l.euhnnann. aged 4e years, for merly a hotel man of Memphis. Tenn., died at his home, 3*41 North Jfcckson 1 ' yesterday morning at 5 o’clock. He ‘j is survived bj his wife, his mother, a sister. Miss \,'ele l<eubrmann. and three . brothers. A \ . A W and H. Leuhr mann, all of Atlanta. The funeral ar t rangements will be announced later Mrs. L. F. Baugh. The funeral of M... 1.. 1 Baugh, who s died vesierday. was held this morning nt s I* o clock at the residence, H7 l -. Carroll . street The interment was at West view A. Boss. A Boss, aged 40 years, died last night a* i0:l0 o’clock at his home, 75 Pavis street. He was a member of the Syna gogue Ahavath Aihini. of Brith Abrli- • bam. and of the Bert Men. He is sur vived b\ hi' wife ami .me daughter The ■ i funeral will be held at rhe residence, ! with interment at Oakland Realty Berryhill. ■ The luneral of Realty Berryhill, who Idled yesterday afternoon at a private j sanitarium, was held this morning at m o’clock in Greenberg w Bond's chapel. j Interment was at Casey's Hugh Rivers. The funeral of Hugh Rivers, who died yesterday, will be held 'his afternoon at 13 o’clock, in Bloomfield's chapel. Inter nment will lie at Oakland. Rev. H. O. Austin. I The luneral of Rev. Herbert o Austin. . wl.. died Monday, will be held this i afternoon at 2 . lock nt Indian Creek 1 ehureb. Kt-V. J !■’. Edens and Rev. I. G | Walker officiating Interment will be in i | the ehureb.' ard A. J. Whidby. The funeral of A. J Whldbv, who died i I Monduv in Milledgeville, win be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock, at the residence. - ’ Wells street. Interment will be at Westview M.ss Hattie Patterson, one of he Christmas seal sellers. One Team of Women Sell SIOO Worth of Christmas Stamps in One Day. \\ ith young women, Weil known in the social world of Atlanta, as leaders in the fight, the war on the white pieague continued today through the selling of Red (.’toss Christmas seals and before the week is out 600.000 of the stamps that mean restored health to thousands will have been placed in this city. Airs. T. B. Felder sold in one morn ing, with the assistance of Mrs. W. C. Jarnigan. $75 worth of stamps, and added $25 more during the after noon. The local committee, of which Mrs. Fred G. Hodgson is chairman, has already distributed 570,000 in the city, and expects to put out 600,000 by the end of the week. One hundred and sixty thousand stamps have been placed with public school children, and the revenue from these will be $1,600. Mrs. J Wade Conkling is chairman of the school committee and hopes to sell $5,000 worth during the campaign. This will go toward the open-air school fund. Booths have been placed In the Pied mont hotel, the Terminal station and the postoffiee and many department Stores, and working girls are co-oper ating in the movement. There are ’5 members of a business women's com mittee, of which Miss Genevieve Saun ders is chairman, and each working girl expects to sell $25 worth of stamps. The headquarters of the local com- I'l'ittee are on the eighth floor of the jbuiluing at 140 Peachtree street, and the committee is receiving many calls oxer the phone. Ivy 804. Z’JT >I n ™ a * er of the state campaign Kendall Weisiger. has sent out 1.600.000 stamps, including those furnished \t lanta. and is keeping 200.000 in reserve He believes more win have to be print-' ed to supply the demand. U. S. PAYS FOR BROMO SELTZER FOR SENATE XSHINCT".'.-. Hee. 18-Here are some ot the things which the people of the I nited States bought during the fiscal year ending June .10. 1912, to enable the senators to struggle through Washington's h*’t summer; Ice apollinaris, vichy. still spring wa ter. bath salt, palmleaf fans, water cool ers. bath slippers, perfumed soap, bath sponges, cologne, talcum powder, mas sage cream, snuff, lithia water, castor oil. listerin.-, witch hazel. bronchial troches, horehound drops, quinine pills, bromo quinine, bromo seltzer, soda inintl dlapepsin. nail brushes, glycerin, razors and bay rum. Thej bought also live pairs of lace curtains lor the senate res taurant at S4O a pair. MINISTERS POSTPONE MACON VICE CAMPAIGN i i im MACON, GA.. Dec. 18.--The minis itus of Macon did not petition council again last night for the appointment of a vice commission, but offered a letter which stated that they would postpone this action fora time. Council recently refused to create a vice commission, and the ministers gave notice that last night th. y would renew the request. It is believed now that the petition will !»»■ .vithhi I<l until t> ni.< . «... -■ 1.. fflOW COSTNER ASKSSSO.OOO.OO Sus Southern for Damages for Death of Engineer Husband Killed in Wreck. • • CLARKESVILLE, GA.. Dee. 18.—Suit for $50,000 against the Southern Rail way Company has just been filed here by Mrs. Minnie M. Costner, of Atlanta, for the death of her husband. Jacob M. Costner, in the Southern railway wreck of October 4 between Cornelia and Baldwin. The suit was instituted here us the county seat of Habersham coun ty, in which the wreck took place. Costner was engineer of the ill-fated train No. 43 that was derailed while speeding to Atlanta about 4 o'clock on the morning of October 4. Mrs. Costner sues as executrix of the estate of the dead engineer. She charges the wreck was due to negli gence of the railway ce mpany. alleging that the track was defective at the place where the derailment took place. She sets out thta her husband was earning $250 per month at his occupa tion and that he was 50 years of age. Three other suits, each for $3,000, have also been filed as the result of this wreck. The plaintiffs are G. D. Dally, Mrs. Ruby Dally, his wife, and A. A. Zachery. Each suit is based on personal injuries alleged. The Southern railway will resist the suits on the contention that the derail ment was caused by train wreckers, who had tampered with the track. To that end two arrests have already been made, Ed Renfroe, who boarded in the Costnere home, and a youth named Tankersley now being confined in the jail here. NEW OFFICERS CHOSEN BY MACHINISTS UNION Atlanta bodge, No. I. and Contract Lodge, No. 43, of the Machinists union, have elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Atlanta Lodge —W. M. Layton, presi dent: S. FI. Brady, first vice president: S. A. Eubanks, second vice president; R. L. Johnson, recording secretary; J. P. Os born, financial secretary; G. M. Godlin, Jr., treasurer; J. H. Thompson, ,J. M. Qu ber and J. M. Long, board of trustees; Chester Donnely, conductor, and A. 11. Summers, sentinel. Contract Lodge—W. S. Kendall, presi dent; Bert Jones, first president; O. C. Jackson, second vice president; H. Lankford, recording secretary; T. • E. Whitaker, financial secretary; Roy R. But ler, treasurer; J. A. Tucker, conductor; S. A. Baxter, sentinel; Egler. Chapman and Samuels, trustees. R. L. Corley has been re-elected busi ness agent for both lodges. OLD WATER TOWER TO BE DISMANTLED AT MACON MACON. GA., Dec. 18.—A relic of Macon’s first waterworks service and one of the landmarks of the city will shortly be removed when the brick tower at High and Orange streets is dismantled by order of the water board. The tower is the highest pinnacle of the city, and from its top all Macon can be seen in panorama. Not being of use any longer, the board has decreed that the historic tower shall be torn down. ARTIFICIAL LAKE AT PANAMA IS BEAUTY WASHINGTON. D, C., Dec. 18.—Gatun lake, created artificially by the Panama canal builders, is to be one of the most beautiful stretches of water in the world, according to the Canal Record in its latest issue. Already the lake has a commercial value, for the natives are uring Is to take their products to market. Aside from the ship canal and the great anchorage basis of Gatun, much of the 1.604 square miles of the lake surface is broken by the tops of trees, which will be submerged when the water level Is raised 30 feet more, as contemplated. ONE ROMNEY PAINTING IS BOUGHT FOR $150,000 XlltV YORK, Dec. IS.—Henry E. Hunt ington has. according to the American Art News, bought the famous portrait by Romney of. Mrs. Sarah Slddons, the Eng lish actress, and her sister, through a lo cal art firm, which brought the picture to America last October. It is understood the price was $150,000. When it arrived here the picture was apraised at SIOO,OOOO SAUERS PURE I’LAVORING EX TRACTS have no equal. Sold every where 10c and 25c the bottle, at vnnr grocer's. (Advt.) HOLIDAY WATCHES watch, the movement is of the greatest importance. Our guaranteed watch movements afford the greatest value to the invest or. In the matter of the case, convenience and per sonal taste are the direct influence. The stock of watch cases that we exhibit includes all styles in medium and fine grades. Charles W. Crankshaw Adan ta Ntitio nal Bank Bldg. feKO DAKS?"-;-. HSwkeyes Mrst Class Finishing and En larging A complete stock tllinr plates, papers, chemicals, etc. Special Mail Under Department for eut-of-town customers. •end for Catalog and Price List. I A. K. HAISKES CO. • • Kodak Deparlmtsi . M Whitehall •«, ATLANTA, «A. J IIELO J 5 ROBBER J 5 HE RECOVERS Ffloymic Hotel Guest, in What He Be lieved To Be Farewell Note, Mentioned Depot Holdup. Declaring that he had taken an ov.-- dose of medicine by mistake ind bL lieved he was dying in his rome nt the Georgian hotel, on West Mitch -.1 st . .. W . B. Fitts, of Birmingham. Ala., today beggeu f>r his release from police ' quarters, where he i s being held ' n suspicion of complicity in the rohberv Monday night of R. L. Jones. O l Vi. ■ ' na, Ga. At an early hour this morning, l it, was found semi-conscious in hi at tile hotel. An ambulance and a ! ■ sician from the Grady hospital ’ La, summoned. His condition was found r to bo serious. Later he was arrested bv Patrolmen Turner and Perry, on a suspicion complicity in the Jones robbery an . assault. His arrest followed the finding of the following note in Fitts room L ths hotel: Denies Knowledge of Robbery. “I can no longer stand to live. God alone knows my pain. As He is tny judge. I flnow nothing of tiie depot robbery. 1 i t ,ve you alt Good-bye. "BEN’" Upon his recovery. Fitts declared hi had written the latter believing he v.a< going to die as a result of the over dose of medicine he had taken. He said he did not wish to die under suspicion as he understood two detectives were looking for him. He declared he is i n nocent of the Jones robbery, and hope.' his letter would explain. He denied hi had attempted suicide. bitts said at police headquarters the he was with Jones Monday, but did no see him Monday night. He said he had been in Atlanta on a visit for five days, and that he has a wife in Bir mingham. whom he did not want to be lieve he was a party to the Jones rob bery. Tells of Taking Medicine. He said he became ill Tuesday, that he went to a drug stole and bought a box of white tablets, that he was told to take one every hour until eight had been taken, and that, he misunderstood the directions and took eight at one time. His illness became more severe during the night, and he said he wrote he note when he believed he was about to die. The physician from the Grady hos pital said the box of medicine did not contain a label, and that he did no. know.what it had contained, nor when, it had been purchased. Despite Fitts' declaration of inno cence and his motive for writing tin letter which led to his arrest, he will be held in custody until the case ha been investigated further. Jones now is at the Cannon hotel not having recovered from injuries re ceived in tile assault upon him by per sons who robbed him of $165 while tak ing a cab ride. GET YOUR FRUIT CAKE NOW AT THE STORE OF D. ZAKAS ou can get your Christinas Fruit <’ake now at the store of I>. Zakas, 30 Peachtree street—Five Point*—and have done with that part of your Christmas dinner. Good Fruit Cake at 30 cents a pound. Also 40 cents, 61 cents and 75 cents a pound. At elthe’ price the cake costs less than you can make it at home, and there is none bet ter. It is clean, it is pure, it is deli cious. (Advt.) ou will find that druggists every where speak well of Chamberlain'’ ( ough Remedy. Thev know from lone experience in the sale of it that in cases of coughs and colds it can always be depended upon, and that it is pleas ant and safe to take. For sale bv ail dealers. (Advt.) THE ATLANTA TO B^O GHT ALL THIS WEEK D^ N 3 E P E % W orld’s Wonder Pictures Paul J. Rainey African Hunt Rnre Treat.”—<’lark Howell PRICES, 25c, 35c, 50c. ATLANTA THEATER SEATS THURSDAY—SOc to $2.00 Monday, Tues., Xmas Mat, and Nui 1 PROHMAN PRESENTS BRILLIANT SUPPORTING CAST. With Ca D r?oB A Mc- D D i A M Comas, Will West, |> K I 1 Ethel Cadman and I.’ 1* 1 A1 ' Fifty Others. GRAWiD * £,rH r ° d - Vi n« Hi M VAUQtviLLt DnigN ■ Gus Edwards’ Song Revueof 1912 With Gus Edwards and 30 Enter'd Wm. Raynore-V io!,-, Keene <t Co. Callon, Al and Fannie Stedn*a r Max Welson Troupe: SNOW & CO : patjhe pictures. NEXT WEEK: ''Dinkelspifl's Christmas TyrTc - ™WEEK I THOMAS $ |*| £ A WILL PRESENT ToNl'ili “THE BELLES’ “Frolics of 191 C