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CMC LEAGUERS HEREfOII MEET National Conference Opens at y m. C. A. Hall Tomorrow for Two-Day Session. •I , seventh national conference of , 'civic League of America will be in Atlanta tomorrow and Friday. . . will be held at Y. M. C. x corner of Auburn avenue and p rv .r -■ .r t. where the first session will to order at 9:30 o’clock to .i:..rr<>xx morning by the Rev. A. R. Hol l!f.rby th< national president. Dele gl . ■ n many cities are expected to h.- present. T . first session will be taken up with :if devotional services, the ap , ■ ntmint of committees, and addresses t,v the Rev. S. R. Belk and Dr. A. R. :j r b>. which will be followed by short Informal discussions. The Rev. p r Belk will speak upon the “Needs •- tic- Home,” and Dr. Holderby will ills topic "Character Building in (>ur Public Schools.” The public is in vited. Admission will be free. Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock th.- Rev. Dr. J J. Hall, director of the South Atlantic department of the \meri>an Peace society, will address the conference on “The City and the Church." Samuel T. Nicholson, secre tary of the league, will deliver an ad dress the same afternoon on “Twen •ieth Century Evils and What to Do With Them.” The annual business session will be he’d Friday morning at 9:30 o’clock, ('rime and Lawlessness" will be the subject of an address by the Rev. Dr. B. Wilmer at 10 o’clock Friday morn ing. Informal discussions and ad dresses by the Rev. Dr. C. O. Jones and Joseph J. Devney, author and publicist, of Cleveland, Ohio, will make up the remainder of the Friday morning and afternoon sessions. Friday night Ber nard Suttler will deliver an address on The Remaking of the Nation." JOHNSON-DALLIS AD FIRM TO DISSOLVE JANUARY 1 The Johnson-Dallis Advertising Agency, of Atlanta, will be dissolved January 1. Edwin F. Johnson will con inue in the advertising business as a general agent, under the firm name of Edwin Johnson Advertising Agency. His offices will be in the Greenfield milding. Ernest E. Dallis, the other member of he firm, also will continue In the busi ■mss as a general agent, under the firm name of Ernest E. Dallis Advertising Agency, and will have offices in the ‘.loure building. f The gift I J/ 9 I WMMMnW i Wivcs r ' ’ Mothers Sisters j t Sweethearts! 111| p Here’s the gift that 1\ every man who Ow ! / fl ' ffiSOSi ■ sB smokes a pipe or rolls H P • "’fe l his own cigarettes will P -ffl K.X jr be grateful for. It’s B w /J Sw’l delicious Prince Albert tobacco. It can’t bite Ml f his tongue, it’s fragrant FyO smoked in the house, aßi| 1 it’s the delight of every SOyffl? i man who knows good tobacco. Fringe Albert the national joy smoke makes it possible for every man to smoke a pipe! Give “him” a jar of P. A. and get him interested in a jimmy pipe. You’ve no idea how much solace and comfort it means after supper —or any other time. The handsome glass humidor holds a pound of Prince Albert and lasts a long while, whether “he” smokes it via a jimmy pipe or a cigarette. A sponge in the top of the lid keeps the tobacco moist and delicious. It’s your duty to make “him' P. A. ioyous this Christmas. Buy Prince Albert at all tobacco etoree in pound gluts humidors, half, pound tin humidors and also in the 10c tidy red tin and 5c toppy red bag. R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO., Winston-Salem, N. C. THE LATEST SONG .. ON WALL STREET csJiSRS OS®. gaiiS. | W 21SODDO D 0 niif H s lL _ (Try this over to the tune of “Didn’t He Ramble?”) Bv HANK. Once there was a gambling man. a gambler bold was he— He was the boldest man the world did ever see. He wandered in the Stock Exchange, and one day bought some stocks. And now the pore old gambling man is busy breaking rocks. CHORI’S: And didn’t Ire gamble, ga-a-amble. Gambled all aronn’, in and out of the town, And didn't he gamble, ga-a-amble. He gambled till tin* brokers cut him down. Once there was a pious man. a pious man was he— He was the mostest pious man the world did ever see. He closed up all the gambling .joints, but didn’t think it strange To sell on “shorts, and curb reports, and lose his pious change. CHORI'S: And didn’t he scramble, scra-a-amble, Scrambled all aroun ’, in and out of town. They forced him to scramble, scra-a-amble, Scramble till the brokers cut him down. HE WILLS HIS ASHES TO “FATHER OF WATERS” DAVENPORT. IOWA. Dec. 18—That his remains be cremated and the ashes scattered on the Mississippi from the government bridge, where be has been a tender for the past eighteen yeras, was the last request of Captain Leo Schu macher. who died here. THE ATT. ANT A GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1912. BELLBOY GETS SSO FOR FINDING SB,OOO BROOCH BOSTON, Dec. 18. —Edmund Lynsky, head bell boy at the Copley Plaza ho tel, today received a check for SSO as a reward for finding the SB,OOO brooch lost by Mrs. Auchincloss, of New York. 10UNG MATRON KILLS OLD MAN I I Laurens County Woman Claims Aged Visitor Insulted Her, > Causing Her to Shoot. DUBLIN, GA., Dee. IS.-—Officers to day are endeavoring to solve the mys tery surrounding the killing of F. M Hightower. 73 years old. by Mrs. A. L. Lynn, 22 years of age, at the Lynn home, eight miles east of Dublin, late yesterday afternoon. There was no eye witness to the tragedy, save a two year-old child of the woman. Her hus band and other children were in a field some distance from the house picking cotton Mrs. Lynn claims that she killed Hightower because he had insulted her. Hightower had borne an excel lent reputation and was well liked. Friends believe that Mrs. Lynn was frightened or became temporarily in sane and was not responsible when she fired the fatal shots. She is in a deli cate condition and will become a moth er within a few weeks. Woman Claims Insult. Hightower had gone to the Lynn farm on Lynn's invitation, to get a load of kindling. He carried a load of sup plies with him in return for the wood. Mrs. Lynn says Hightower walked into her room, took a seat in a rocking chair and then insulted her. She says she reached in a drawer for a pistol and shot him to death as he sat in the chair. Hightower was shot in the stomach first, and ft is thought he fell forward in the chair, receiving the other bul lets in the back of his head and body. The condition of the chair shows he was in the chair at the time he was shot. A neighbor. Tom Hart, states that three or four shots were fired in quick succession, and after a pause there were others. The body holds seven wounds, indicating the pistol was reloaded. Helped Rear His Slayer. Hightower was a brother-in-law of the late John Colley, Who reared Mrs. Lynn, after she was left an orphan. He had known Mrs. Lynn since childhood, and had assisted in caring for her be fore her marriage. It is alleged that hard feelings had aidsen between Hightower and Lynn recently, because Lynn charged High tower with attempting to deprive Mrs. Lynn of a share in the Colley estate. Hightower’s funeral takes place to morrow morning. Mrs. Lynn has not been arrested, be cause of her delicate physical condi tion. Hightower was the father of J. B. Hightower, chief of police of Dublin. Another son, F. C. Hightower, lives at Jackson, Tenn. He also Is survived by a daughter, Mrs. W. S. Holley, residing here. Lynn only recently moved to the farm from Dublin, where he was a blacksmith. He is well known through out Laurens county. KINDNESS MAKES POOR GIRL $7,000,000 HEIRESS KINGSTON, N. Y., Dec. 18.—Word has just been received that Miss Esther Sleight, a 20 year old cigar factory girl, who lives in one of the poorest sections of the city, has just been bequeathed $7,000,000 by a Vancouver, British Colum bia. woman, for whom she did little kindnesses while she was a waitress at Atlantic City. DEATHS AND FUNERALS John A. Corbally. The funeral of John A. Corbally, the contractor, who died Tuesday, will be held this afternoon at 3 o’clock in St. Anthonys Catholic church in West End. Rev. Father Jackson will conduct the services. Interment will be in West view Henry Leuhrmann. Henry Leuhrmann, aged 40 years, for merly a hotel man of Memphis, Tenn., died at his home, 361 North Jackson street, yesterday morning at 5 o’clock He is survived by his wife, his mother, a sister, Miss Adele Leuhrmann, and three brothers. A. A., A. W. and H. Leuhr mann, all of Atlanta. The funeral ar rangements will be announced later. Mrs. L. F. Baugh. The funeral of Mrs. L. h Baugh, who died yesterday, was held this morning at 9 o'clock at the residence, 67% Carroll street. The interment was at West view. A. Boss. A. Boss, aged 40 years, died last night at 10:40 o’clock at his home. 75 Davis street. He was a member of the Syna gogue Ahavath Achim, of Brlth Abra ham, and of the Red Men. He is sur vived by his wife and one daughter. The funeral will be held at the residence, with interment at Oakland Realty Berryhill. The funeral of Realty Berryhill, who died yesterday afternoon at a private sanitarium, was held this morning at 10 o'clock in Greenberg * Bond’s chapel. Interment was at Casey's Hugh Rivers. The funeral of Hugh Rivers, who died yesterday, will be held this afternoon at 3 o’clock, in Bloomfield’s chapel. Inter ment will be at Oakland. Rev. H. O. Austin. The funeral of Rev. Herbert O Austin, who died Monday, will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at Indian ('reek church. Rev. J. F. Edens and Rev I. G Walker officiating Interment will be In the churchyard A. J. Whidby. The funeral of A J. Whidby, who died Monday in Milledgeville, will be held this afternoon at 2 o’clock, at the residence, 15 Wells street Interment will be al W< at view Erastus Parker. The body of Erastus Parker, who died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Brantley, near Decatur, Sunday night, was buried late yesterday afternoon at Stamps ('hapel cemetery, the funeral services being conducted by Rev. A. C. Hendley, acting pastor of the chapel, assisted by Dr. Ashley V. Pickem, of Atlanta.’ The deceased was 32 years old and is sur vived by three sisters and three broth ers, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Paj'ker. having died several years ago. DARING YOUNG THIEF ESCAPES SING SING; WARDEN PERPLEXED OSSINING. N. Y., Dec. 18—Ches ter W. Yates, one of the most daring thieves in the country and the "brains" in the $87,000 Bancroft robbery that caused the downfall of Daniel O'Reilly, the lawyer, escaped early today from Sing Sing prison, where he was sent last August to serve a sentence of 21 years. Warden John S. Kennedy and the keepers in the prison confessed that they had not the slightest idea how Yates escaped. The prisoners on their way to the shop walk acrbss the big prison yard. When they reach the door they are counted. It was here Yates was missed. The prisoners were returned to their cells and the alarm whistle of the pris on, which can be heard two miles, was sounded. Within fifteen minutes of the discovery Warden Kennedy had dis patched several bands of guards to search for Yates in the surrounding country. The fog from the river was thick and a passing train also made everything favorable for the escape. Yates possesses a remarkable career for a criminal of only 29 years of age. After getting into trouble with several hotel robberies which he planned while working as a bellboy he contrived the Bancroft robbery. BOULEVARD PAVING ONLY A MAKESHIFT, SAYS CONTRACTOR At a meeting of property holders on North Boulevard last night G. M. In grund. president of the Southern Bitu lithic Company of Nashville, declared that the bituminous macadam on North Boulevard which has called forth the denunciation of the property holders was a mere “makeshift,” but is Just what the specifications call for. He said the fault was not with his company, but with the people, who had decided upon a form of paving which will not stand the wear of heavy traffic. He also declared that his company would finish the contract unless pro hibited by a court order, but made a proposition to take off the top paving already laid and replace it with more substantial material, at an additional cost. A committee of property holders will be appointed to look into the several propositions offered for the reconstruc tion of the street, and to decide upon a' definite plan with the city construction department and the contractor. KILLS HIMSELF BECAUSE HE “COULD NOT HELP IT” COLUMBUS, GA., Dec. 18.—John A. Cannon, for eight years a member of the Columbus fire department, took his life today by drinking carbolic acid. Ho resigned his place in the fire de partment to take charge of a dairy last Monday. A brother is a member of the fire department, and another Is in the police department. The only cause assigned for his rash deed was that he “could not help it.” The funeral takes place tomorrow morning. Ml NISTER? POSTPONE MACON VICE CAMPAIGN MACON, GA., Dec. 18. —The minis ters 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 for a time. Council recently refused to create a vice commission, and the ministers gave notice that last night they would renew' the request. It is believed now that the petition will be withheld until a new council goes in. WIFE OF MILLIONAIRE TO SING WITH KUBELIK ST. LOUIS, MO., Dec. 18.—Mrs. Rob ert Nolker, wife of the millionaire pres ident of the St. Louis Aero club, will | sing in several concerts in London next i spring with Jan Kubelik, the violinist. ! A letter offering the opportunity has been sent to her by Lionel Powell, of London. Kubelik's manager. The offer has been , approved by Kubelik, who has heard Mrs Nolker sing. BOOTH’S HYOMEI Breathe It for Catarrh Physicians Prescribe It and Pharmacists Recommend It. Quickly Clears Stuffed Up Head and Stops Snuffling and Hawking In the morning, shortly after you I awake, dear reader, do you have to j hawk and strain to get that stubborn i piece of mucus out of your throat? Get rid of catarrh now ; it will grow ! worse as you grow older. One day of ! breathing pleasant, healing HYOMEI, (pronounce It High-o-me), the guaran. I teed catarrh remedy, will give you sucli wonderful relief that you will wonder why you doubted the statement that I Booth's HYOMEI would end the most aggravating case of catarrh. A hard rubber pocket inhaler and a j bottle of HYOMEI, with simple instruc. i tlons for use, is SI.OO. This Is called I the HYOMEI outfit. If one bottle does; not banish your catarrh, you can get another for only 50 cents. Thousands . use It for coughs, cold and croup. Sold bv druggists everywhere. (Advt.) ■BWORPUINr whiskey and to. UixrniHL bacco fl.b.t. Cur.d Ly JL bx new painless method. NO DEPOSIT OR FEE required until cure is effected. Endorsed by Governor and other State officials. Home or sanitarium treatment. Booklet free. DR. POWER GRIBBLE, Supt., kaa 885. Lebaaea, Taaa. CaJarcroit Saaitariaa. AMERICUS MOTHER RECLAIMS BABY SHE GAVE WAY IN MACON MACON, GA., Dec. 18.—The police have ascertained by diligent investiga tion that the young mother who thrust her two-year-old baby upon Mrs. W. C. Cleveland’s negro nurse Monday after noon and then appeared yesterday at Mrs. Cleveland's home and reclaimed the child is Mrs. H. P. Sydeli, of Amer icus. The young woman came to Macon Monday morning and registered at a hotel near the depot, having the baby with her then. When she returned to' the hotel for supper it was observed that the child was gone. Tlte nurse states that Mrs. Sydeli suddenly placed the baby in her arms and said: "Take good care of this lit tle girl. Her name is Eleanor," and then hurried away. The nurse turned the baby over to Mrs. Cleveland, who had prepared to adopt it. In calling upon Mrs. Cleve- A ‘Tip TO SMOKERS Give cigars! Here's the best, selected assortment in the country, both imported and domestic stock. Come take a look at our special Christmas pack ages. We have them in all sizes and shapes and from the world’s best known makers. They make hand some presents. Our experience is back of you and every purchase you make here. Make your selection now. Prompt attention to mail orders. Oppenheim Cigar Co. 7 E. Alabama St. Atlanta, Ga. T . —. T ■ ~T | ■— T rßrwnrnn I— ■■MIMI I !■—l —niw-—-r-rr-rMM—■ OTclothes Y& ? MOTHER, BROTHER, SISTER, or YOURSELF Xv/ *1 No reason why you 7 cannot give or wear some- thing just as nice as you desire this Christmas. YOU CAN CHARGE IT AT THE MENTER CO. STORE AND PAY BILL A LITTLE. EACH WEEK. <i You have a most complete stock of the newejft and swelled of mid-winter sftyles to choose from Eurs, Dresses, Suits, Coats, Millinery—every thing for men, women and children. THE MENTER CO. 711-2 Whitehall Street (Upstairs). First Stairway below J. M. High Co. ■ tTbank ■ I 1 BOOK .■ Christmas 7ou can ui'/eyowr wife is a Banti her.- Central Bank & Trust Corporation Candler Bldg. Branch: Cor. Mitchell & Forsyth Streets land for the tot, the mother did not offer any explanation of her conduct. Clogged-Up Liver Causes Headache It’s a foolish proceeding to »utfer from cod ification, sick headache, biliousness, indigestion and kindred ail meats when CARTER’S LITTLE LIVER PILLS will end all •r.TJ:'' afflgCAWg vegetable. ®ITTLE Act gently IIVER on liver B PILLS. .nd \\_ Urcwidi bowel). 4 m .eil' > 5m.1l Pill, Smail D 0.., Small Price. The GENUINE must bear signalura 9