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2 Read Evelyn Wren’s Story on a Visit to Poor Homes Made Happy by the Generosity of Atlantans GEORGIAN’S STOCKING FUND MAKES CHRISTMAS MERRY FOR HUNDREDS Youngsters of SI um s Now Certain Jolly Old Saint Nick Can Find His Way Any- w h e r e---S a u a 1 i d Hom e s Scenes of Yuletide Revelry. Continued From Pape One. real Christmas to those who had re ceived them. They had made Santa Claus real t the littie one- of the poor; had revived their faith in the good fat saint who doesn't know the dlfferen<> between Peachtree and Peters street--; they had meant at least ni- day of sunshine inti year of daikness. Most of the older children knew win m e the presents had come, and spoke of it, shyly, but the little fellows thought only of Santa Cans, and explained wisely to each other how he could find his way any where and no matter how often any body’s molhet moved into another house At tie very first home I visited a lii- v tbo won . n. as a bird, opened the door to me. She held a baby tn her arms, and the baby was trying hard to shallow a rattb- twii< as big as ils insebud of a mouth. I ex plained mv errand, and the moth- i gave me a smile. “Come in if you like." site aid. "You must exetoe tppea rances. The chil dren iia'.en’l given me a chance to st night* n -i| yet. and 1 wasn’t expect ing any i-o<i'. ’’ Miserable Little Hovel. ■Straight! n up! ” she 1 ad said. There was miserably little to s'raighten in a Im nr like tills! A bed with insufficient covering. a pallet on the Hour without a pillow or a mattress, a broken-ligged stove, a rickety table, a lie; nailed to tn<- wall for a cupboard. a oeking chair so loose-joint-d that I: threatened .> tumble down, a wood box tilled with rotten pickings from the lumber yard close by And the family of four lived in this room, i hovel you wouldn't have housed your collie in. But what is one to do with three children to feed and one of them a baby in arms and your man killed In the railroad yards'? One is lucky to find the bit of washing or scrubbing which will pay the rent and buy enough to eat. such as It is. I bad expected to hear a burst of childish laughtei as the door was opened, the sound of mere* voices as the children frolicked with their toys The quiet surprised me But as the mother stepped aside I saw the two elder children. They were sitting on the floor, close by the stove, silently In specting the most wonderful, the most delightful of all the gifts. The toy en gine and the drum lay In the comer, the oranges waited on the shelf until Inter in the day. Oh, Such Wa'm Clothes! Willie and Annie were running their little hands over the soft smoothness of the new underwear Santa Claus had brought, feeling the texture of the stockings, thrusting thilr feet proudly into the whole new shoe- nice enough even to wear to school If Annie didn’t have to care sot the baby and Willie wasn’t trying to find a job. These children wore glad to have their toys. Oh, yes, very glad. Later on they would set the engine going and bint flu drum and Anniy would hug hi r new doll close in her arms and pick out the very grandest name fur h< r Rut just now they were too happy over big things like underwear and shoes, and the meat and vegetables their mother had bought. They were going to have a real Christmas dinner, with plenty for everybody, because Santa Claus had brought mother atwo dollar bill and told her to spend It on •something for Christmas. Homes Quietly Happy, Most of the homes were like that, quietly happy on Christmas morning. There were children In some of those homes who had never learned to play; to whom the language of childhood was unknown: to whom toys had small ap peal. They were tiny old men and women, these children of thi side streets, with cares and troubles Which had driven out the love of fun and laughter and left only tile thought of how to keep warm and have enough to eat. I wis glad that all the motley hadn’t gone for toys, though the toys coat so little in proportion to the fun they gave the youngest of the children. That part of the fund expended for warm clothing and shoes and the bit of money given the mothers went fur ther. 1 believe than any such amount ever w ent before. " Fhe trongs you gave us made this the first real Christmas I have known since my husband died," said one woman as I left her door. “I re ceived your card telling me there were some toys for my children at your of fice. It made me bitter for a moment. God knows. I wanted my babies to have a toy or two for Christmas. 1 had planned to spend a penny or perhaps a nickel for some little thing for them— just a stick of candy or an apple may be. But when I thought of all that money in th. fund going sot toy s, when 1 hadn’t a lump of coal in the house, wi.i-n my cables were shivering for lack of clothing, when I knew their Christ mas dinner- would be bread and a bit of the cheapest scrap meat the butcher Would sell for a nickel —lt made mo wonder whether your kind of people could realize how mis, ruble poor some of us are. "But I ..ent for the toys, anyway, and when I found the warm underwear and 1 THIS CORNELL CO-ED IS PERFECT WOMAN lh^»—- Miss Elsie Scheel, of Brooklyn, a student at Cornell, who. according to the medical examiner, is a perfect woman. Miss Elsie Scheel, of Brooklyn, Called “Splendidly Rounded Athlete.” ITHACA. N. Y, Dec. 25.—The “per fect woman’’ at Cornel! is Miss Elsie Scheel, of Brooklyn, a special student in the College of Agriculture, who plans to grow vegetables on her father’s farm on Long Island. According to Dr. Es ther Parker, medical examiner of wom en, Miss Scheel is the strongest of the 400 coeds at Cornell. "She Is a splen didly rounded athlete," said Dr. Parker, "and it would ba hard to find a person with more perfect control over the muscles.” Some of Miss Scheel's measurements are: Weight, 171 pounds', height. 5 feet 7 inches; normal chest, 34 6 inches; .vs Ist, 30.3 inches; hips, 40.4 inches. Her hobby is motoring, and her fa coilte game'ls basket ball. Her favor ite food is beefsteak. She does not like candy. She never has tasted tea or coffee. She eats three meals in two days-and as a rule goes without break fast Miss Scheel never has been sick. She is an ardent suffragist. DIVORCEES WHO FLEE TO WED ARE BARRED SPRINGFIELD, ILL.. Dec. 25.—When a person violates the statute prohibit ing remarriage within one year after divorce, the remarriage is not legal, 'even if performed in another state, and one party to the illegal marriage has no claim uppn the estate of the other. This opinion has been handed down by the supreme court. The court says that in some states, where the remar riage of only the party at fault is pro hibited. the law has been construed as penal and having no extra territorial effect. me to spend I was so happy I couldn’t -ay a word. 1 reckon, maybe. I came away without thanking you. But it wasn’t because'l didn't feel thankful." The Christmas fund has been distrib uted. The children have been made happy for a day, the mothers’ trials have been lightened for a little while. But tomorrow Christmas will be past, the Christmas dinner eaten, the Chrlst nas coal burned in the broken stove. The rent collector will be calling just the same as usual this week, the grocer will be just as insistent on seeing the money before he can feed his custom- Keep Up the Good Work. You folk who gave to the Empty Stocking Fund did a kind and gracious thing, and 1 hope your Christmas is the happier for the thought of it. But. ladle- and gentlemen, the poor are still there, and still are poor. Your three meals a day will continue Just the same when Christmas Is over; your beds will be just as warm, your children just as well < lad. What of the children you mace happy for one day—one day of three hundred and sixty-five? If you had seen these children of the poor as 1 have seen them, if you had talked with the long line of mothers who came through the rain of Monday and under the sunshine of yesterday to carry home the bundles, you would feel a sense of personal responsibility, be haunted by the idea that a little of the money you waste would go so far to ward buy ing comfort for these others whose fortunes led them down while yours took you unward. The Georgian can not handle your charities all the year round. It has done what it could to help you help others for this one day. Rut the Asso ciated Charities is always there, always searching out these homes of the mis erable. doing what it can to help pro vi-t* for present and future. It could do more If it had more funds, more subscribers to Its treasury. more friends who would give work to those oat of a Job. Tn re Is your opportunity to make Christmas last all the year round. Think It over. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 25, 1912. LAO ■ NEYEB SMILED J SUICIDE Father Not Surprised, as Boy Had Habitual Grouch, He Declares. NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Louis Farentino, 16 years old, whose father said he never had been known to smile, shot himself in the head in Central park and died in Bellevue hospital a few hours later. The boy left his home at 83 Colyer st., Brooklyn. In the morning and as he seldom gave a pleasant reply to questions, according to his father, no one asked him where he was going Policeman Loh meyer heard jx shot near the Arsenal, in Central park, and found Farentino uncon scious on a bench with a pistol beside him. Corinto Farentino. father of the boy, was called, his name having been found in papers in the lad's pocket, and he reached Bellevue hospital soon after his son died. “I am not surprised." he said. “The boy had a habitual grouch. He never saw anything pleasant in life. No one ever saw him smile. We tried everything for years to cheer him up, but it was useless. We took him to the funniest farce come dies and he would sit through them with a frown and the corners of bls mouth down. “He had no reason to kill himself ex cept he was naturally disgusted with life and the world. He never saw anything pleasant In any one or anything He could find fault with anything. I have tried thousands of ways and thousands of times to cheer him up, and make him smile, but it was useless." ATLANTA WINS FAVOR OF CUBAN CONSULAR AGENT Atlanta’s hospitality impressed Cesar A. Barrancas, Cuban consular agent, and representative of the Cuban gov ernment in the recent Panama Canal Conference held here. Walter B. Coop er, secretary of the Chamber of Com merce, received today from Mr. Bar rancas. in Washington, a letter ex pressive of the fact that in his opin ion much good will be derived from the conference; also that Atlanta's method of treating the visitors was great. BIG LUMBER MILL. IDLE TWO YEARS, STARTS UP RAMSAY, LA., Dec. 25 After two years idlenss, the big mill at Ramsay La., acquired by the St. Tammany Lumber Manufacturing Company, has started up. and will, it is said, be op erated continuously after next week, when the work of pushing six miles of railroad through the timbered wilder ness will commence in earnest. Between 200 and 300 men will be em ployed in the mill. « MANY CHICAGO POLICE WITH USELESS PISTOLS CHICAGO. Dee. 25.—With Chicago’s crime wave rising higher, Chief of Po lice McWeeny lias discovered the as tounding fact that 203 policemen are pacing beats without useful revolvers. The chief found that revolvers of these policemen failed to explode car tridges tn practice. He issued a strin gent order that every policeman get a serviceable ifeapon. FIFTY-FIVE PIANOS SOLD FOR 47 1-2 CENTS APIECE NEW YORK. Dec. 25.—Fifty-five pianos were sold at 47 1-2 cents apiece at an auction sale in the rooms of the Edlsonia Company, at Newark. N. J Starting with a bld of 25 cents, the price finally reached the high water murk and the lot went at that rate. The pianos were second-hand ones that had bten traded in for new ones. '& 1 QlwwfW* '57 ■ 1 J© YULETIDE SPIRIT INHOSPITALS AND JAILS Prisoners and Invalids Given Special Christmas Dinners and Holiday Privileges. Surpassing any recent year, the' Christmas spirit, having as its slogan "Peace on earth, good will toward men,” today prevails in every Federal, state, county, city and private penal and charitable institution in Atlanta. Money has been freely spent to add to the celebration of the day in a kindly, human and sympathetic man ner. Today every inmate of the Fed eral prison, the county jail, the county convict camps, the county almshouse and other similar institutions will be made to feel the significance of a true Christmas celebration. Santa Claus also did not forget the twenty little sufferers in the children’s ward at the Grady hospital. Due to the efforts of Mrs. Gordon Kiser and Mrs. John M. Hill, assisted by Dr. W. B. Summerall, the superintendent, the lit tle crippled, maimed and ill were given a Christmas tree, heavily laden with gifts. They were made to feel that Santa Claus could find them as easily in the big municipal hospital as well as in their own homes. The several hundred convicts em ployed in the four county convict camps will spend the day in rest. At each camp there will be a barbecue dinner at 1 o’clock. Many kinds of fruits and nuts also will be provided. At the Tower 185 prisoners will pass the day in reading, hearing music and as guests of Sheriff Mangum and Jailer Golden at a big chicken dinner. Presents will be distributed to the pris oners at 9:30 o'clock this morning by Mrs. M. L. Culver Smith, assistant worker in the Atlanta Baptist associa tion. An extended musical program has been arranged for the dinner hour at the Federal prison. A big turkey din ner, with many savory side dishes, will await the marching of the pris oners into the dining hall at 1 o’clock. The dining room has been decorated with holly wreaths. Christmas bells and green bunting. The almshouse patients have been remembered, too. Religious services, with music, will be held this morning, and the Christmas dinner will be spread at 1 o’clock. Patients and nurses at the Atlanta hospital will have a Christmas dinner, and will receive gifts in the forenoon. CURIOSITY KILLED A CAT, BUT MARY IS NOT A CAT HAMMOND. IND., Dec. 25.—Within a month three-year-old Mary Susan McLaughlin, of Portland, has battled with death four times successfully, and all because the chilli’s curiosity is un controllable. First, she took carbolic acid, burning her throat horribly, and recovered. Then she drank a saucerful of fly poison and neaily died. She was just able to be around again when sho ate a boxful of tablets intended to be taken only one at a time. Now she has been operated upon for the removal of a pin which lodged in her windpipe. ASKS $25,000 DAMAGES FOR BREACH OF PROMISE BALTIMORE, Dec. 25.—The alleged failure of Winfield B. Harward, it member of a prominent Harford county family, to keep his promise to marry Miss Cynthia Maria Ryan. 1427 Mi - Culloh street, is the basis for the suit for $25,000 which Miss Ryan filed against him in the circuit court. Miss R'-an claims that Harward pro posed to her In June. 1911, and that on the strength of his proposal she gave up a profitable business Harward’s family is supposed to be wealthy. THIS GOVERNOR WOULD ABOLISH STATE SENATE PHOENIX. ARIZ.. Dev. 25. -Govern or Hunt Is soon to convene a special session of the legislature at which the abolition of the state senate will be taken under advisement. The governor believes that this body makes for the complication of legisla tion. forecasting the day when it will be a thing of the past throughout the country. FOND OF FACTS? THEN YOU ARE A ZOOPHILE! CHICAGO. ILL., Dec. 25.-Are you al ' zoophile'? ' You are If you fill your I house with stray cats and let the fam- I ily Sleep In the clothes closets and on the book shelves. LIST OFCONTRIBUTIONS TO CHRISTMAS FUND Following is the complete list of the contributions to The Georgian’s Christ mas fund for the poor: Georgian's concert at Grand .. 226.49 Gus 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 J. W. English 25.00 John E. Murphy 25.00 W. T. Gentry 25.00 George Adair 25.00 Joel Hurt 25.00 W. H. Glenn . ... 25.00 E. H. Inman- 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 F. L. Seely 25.00 H. C. Worthen 15.00 Girls in corset department of Rich's store 10.00 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 Preston Arkwright 10.00 Ira Steiner 10.00 Mrs. Santa 10.00 Inman Park Girls club 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Wilson . .. 10.00 Postoffice clerks 9.40 R. J. Guinn 5.00 E. P. Ansley 5.00 E. C. Peters 5.00 M. L, Thrower 5.00 S. B. Turman ... 5.00 Mrs. Robert Maddox , 5.0 C I. H. Oppenheim 5.00 Joseph A. Willingham 5.00 Mrs. J. M. High 5.00 Mrs. George McKenzie 5.00 Mrs. P. H. Alston. , 5.00 M. H. Wilensky 5.00 A Friend 5.00 J. K. Ottley 5.00 J. S. Akers .... 5.00 Clifford L. Anderson . 5.00 Dr. E. G. Ballenger 5.00 Chief J. L. Beavers 5.00 Marion Jackson 5,00 A Friend ... 5.00 Dr. George Brown 5.00 J. P. Allen ... 5.00 Robert L. Cooney 5.00 Reuben R. Arnold 5.00 Marion Cobb Bryan and Flor- ence Jackson Bryan, Jr. . . 5.00 Charles J. Haden 5.00 Howard Pattillo 5.00 J. K. Ottley 5.00 Daniel W. Rountree p.OO 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 Poole & McCollough 5.00 Joseph T. Orme 5.00 James G. Woodward 5.00 Thomas C. Biggs (Viele Mo- tor Company) 5.00 Charles A. Smith 5.00 George 8. Obear ... 5.00 Robert T. Small 5.00 C. G. 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 j Hugh Richardson 5.00 J. J. Disosway 5.00 j Mrs. Frank Pearson 5.00 Mrs. S. F. Jackson 5.00 Mrs. Frances D. Shaw ... ... 5.0 C Lyrra Smith 5.00 : J. J. Spalding 5.00 Arthur T. Smart 5.00 - Class No. 2, Presbyte"ian Sun- day school Union Point . . . . 5.00 Order of Owls 5.00 A Friend ■ ■ ■ t 5.00 E, M. Arnold 5.00 Shelby Smith 2.50 [ A, D. Williams 2.50' A Friend ... 2.00 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 Edith Hall . .. 2.00 R. S. Wessels 2.00 A Friend 2.50 A Friend of the Kiddies 2.50 Mrs. L. A. Tiller 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 Jean and Ethel Cantrell 2.00 Cash . 2.00 Mrs. Cammack 2.00 Sam Norton 2.00 J. T. Kirkpatrick 2.00 Frederic L. Beers, Jr 2.00 In Memory of a Baby 2.0 C Three Kids 1.50 ( Wiley Jones 1.50 First Universalist S. S 1.34 Captain Brick . . . I.OC I W. J. Speer . . 1.00 I Mrs. M. I. Randolph I.OC I T. D. S 1.00 I j Walter J. Wood . 1.00 > Margie Stokes, Mystic, Ga. . 1.00 I Hugh Latimer Cardoza. Jr. ... 1.00 I Mrs. Bolling Jones 1.00 I H. H. Cabaniss 1.00 ) Helen Lucile Dickson 1.00 I Meyer Regenstein 1.00 I Mrs. A. E. Thornton 1.00 I J. W. Maddox 1.00 I Hortense Adams, Jr 1.00 ) Albert S. Adams 1.00 j Constance Adams 1.00 I A Friend ... 1.00 I Miss Lucile LaHatte 1.00 I Mary S. Connally 1.00 I Margaret Massengale 1.00 I A Friend I.OQ Miss Crush 1.00 I A Friend I,QO ) Miss Emilie Liebman . 1.00 l Mayor Winn 1.00 > A Friend 1.00 I Dr. A. H. Van Dyke 1.00 I J. E. McClelland 1.00 ) J. R. Nutting <I.OO I I. N. Ragsdale 1.00 ; A. J. Johnson I.QQ I J. J. Greer 1.00 l Dr. C. J. Vaughan 1.00 I Albert D. Thomson 1.00 I D. J. Baker . ..- 1.00 I C. W. Smith 1.00 I Roy Abernathy 1.00 I Claude C. Mason 1.00 I C. D. Knight I.OC l F. J. Spratling i_oo I Jesse M. Wood . 1.00 i In Memory of a Little Boy ... 1.00 i J. H. Andrews 1.00 I Aldine Chambers 1.00 i S. A. Wardlaw 1.00 i John S. Candler 1.00 I J. D. Sisson 1.00 I W. G. Humphrey 1.00 ; Orville H. Hall i.QO i Dr, A. H. Baskin 1.00 I J. E. Warren 1,00 I George H. Boynton I.GC I W. D. Ellies, Jr i.qc , Ormond Massengale 1.00 I St. Elmo Massengale, Jr 1.00 l Friend E 1.00 , Julia Lowry Meador 1.00 l A Friend I.QO ! Judge Broyles 1.00 I Chessie Lagomarsino, Jr IJJC ! In Memory of a Little Niece . . I.DC ! W. A. Bowman i.qc ! J. F. Kneisel i.QO ! John D. Dameron, Jr i.qq t Amelia Speer i.QO ! George A. Speer i.QO , “Os Kors e ” 1.00 Emily Longino I.QC , A Friend i’ oo ! Billie and Charlie Leas 1.00 | Emily Malone i.QO ! A Friend I.QC , Cash 1.25 i A. S. Edwards 1.00 ! Cuff Edwards 1.00 ! James Gimm ... .55 J. B. Ran-.ey .50 ! Henry L. Claughton .50 . A Friend . J B. J. Covington . .50 Miss May Baker .50 1 Merryman Cross .25 I Alfred Acree .25 John Hopkins .25 I I Malcolm, Jr., and Emily Jones, Willacoochee, Ga .25 1 ! Ernest M. Daniel.. Athens .... .14 I i In Memory of Martha Story ... .50 I I Little “Os Korse” .. .53 1- I Total $1,568.99 ,! Montag Bros., large box of beautiful I toys. D. N. McCullough, box Indian River or* I anges. I i Bell Bros., barrel of apples. ([Broyles' Store, box of oranges. i Lowry Fruit and Produce Company, 25 I pounds nuts. i Crew L. Wood, overcoat. Ida Bee, Rosalie Bee and Edwa.d H. Bee. Jr., toys and clothes. BRONCHIAL ■ ■ . 1 • ' -‘A -i COUGHS I result from inflammation 1 ■ of the delicate bronchial I ■ tubes which clog with | I mucus —pneumonia easily I E follows. SCOTTS EMULSION work* I H wonders in overcoming acute I V bronchitis; it stops the COUgh, I ■ checks the inflammation, and r f its curative, strengthening I E food-value distributes ener- I I gy and power throughout I S the body. ■ Insist on SCO/ I'S for Bronchitis. I Scott & Bf'Wne. Bloomfield, N.J. 12-80 I GHRISHS BEIL WOftKMYATTHE POSTOFFICE ■ ! Mail Clerks and Carriers See Little of Santa Claus in the Final Grand Rush. Two hundreii ' mail clerks and carriers dreamed of full stockings last night, thev said at the iiestoffice this morning B ut the stockings were packed with 200 000 letters and packages, and the dream was a reminder that the job of distributing the mail of Christmas—which is some mall- must be accomplished, holiday O r no. So it wasn’t Santa Claus at all that came to them lust night, but a bad dream Santa Claus and the spirit of Christmas dodged the postal workers. They awoka to a realization of the quarter of a mil lion letters and cijrds and bundles to b<> delivered. So they arose and proceeded to get or their jobs. It may be that they didn't like it—but they’re just public servants. There was an early morning mail de livery today, when the carriers ami their helpers, laden- with a load like that of old Atlas, staggered about in an effort to distribute the mail that came for Atlanta folks last night. Extra Men Hardest Hit. The bunch at the postoffice who prob ably least liked the workaday Christmas were those who had signed up. In a setni blind way, as extra clerks, to help out In the holiday rush, and to make a lit tle pin money, or holiday spending fund. To work on Christmas, the one holiday of the year, for 30 cents an hour, to know chat there is no reward for your industry but the 30 cents, that your job end's Christmas night or the next day—how would you like to be a holiday clerk’? Over their heads they realized the of fices were quiet, and nobody was working except an isolated person here and there who came down to pen a few lines, or to catch up With the records, or to pre side over the court dockets for a little while. Outside, they knew the streets w<r* : still with the holiday .dullness. And afte the little space during which the win dows were open for holiday delivery, the postoffice itself was quiet. But ft was Christmas, and the mail clerks hr,; t. work. Orticfally. the crime of delaying the delivery of that card trom Keokuk i.- as.heinous as malfeasance in office, what ever that constitutes. No Cinch Running Postoffice. Postmaster McKee and his executive foTce were on the job during the time oi the early morning rush, when the windows were open to the public, liui. ning a postoffice, Air. McKee has foun< out this week, is a job that requires the combined -alenis of a floor walker a t>asebaJl, umpire and a Scotland Yard de tective. with the patience of Job and the tem’perament of the meekest thrown in. It may be that be has found out s tact which is true, that the distribute : 01 the mail is a thing about which the general public knows less, and about a tangle in which they kick the hardest' A man s house is his castle; his mail h more, being his personal honor, his fam ily Skeleton, his belief in the past and his hope for the future. Which every post office official knows, and will tel] you upon inquiry, the knowledge having been gleaned by them from the school of ex perience. I he branch stations had no such stren uous day as did the main office. Only «»ne delivery was made in the residential section, although the carriers downtown went- about twice among the office build ings and stores. SIMILARITY OFIIAMES EMBARRASSES DR. BROWN A Story appeared in The Georgian 1 October 17. last, detailing the allega tions in a divorce suit filed at that time by one C.’ N. Brown. The impression has become prevalent in certain parts of the state that the plaintiff was the well known traveling optician, Dr. C. N Brown. This impression is erroneous, as Dr. Brown’s friends well know The similarity of names has bten embarrass ing to Dr. Brown and his friends wish everyone to know that he was in no way connected with the litigation. ■ (Advt.) l -A U '• ~ THE ATLANTA TO B^S QHT Also Tues.. Wed. Nights. Wed. Mat. CHARLES FROHMAN PRESENTS DONALD nr. , . With Carroll Me- II If I 4 El Comas. Will West. fl K I /» 11 Ethel Cadman and JLJ 11 1 H 11 Fifty Others. BRILLIANT SUPPORTING CAST. Prices 50c to $2.00. Thurs., Frl„ Sat. Mat., Sat. Night SEATS ON SALE TODAY. A. S. STERN Presents IDA ST. LEON (Late of “Polly of the Circus "! A New Comedy Drama "FINISHING FANNY.” Nights. 25c to $1.50; Mat.. 25c to $1 GRAND ;‘S„ ni DINKELSPIEL’S CHRISTMAS BY GEORGE V. HOBART Empire Comedy Foui —Lew Hawkins Miss Robbie Gordone and Others Little Emma Bunting And FORSYTH PLAYERS "The Little Gray Lady." Special Xmas Matinee. Tyric Mats.. Tues.. Wed., Thurs., Sat. SPECIAL XMAS MAT. WEDNESOA • THE BIG MUSICAL REVUE THE FROLICS 0F1912 Next Week: BABY MINE