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Society News of Atlanta \ YEARS DAY will be ob- . I by a, number of informal - ■ mes, among Atlanta host* Ur. .mil Mrs. Robert Foster Maddox . at home at Woodhaven from 4 , o’clock. No Invitations have issued, but Mr. and Mrs. Maddol delighted to receive all their f, .. .. at that time, by the old-fashion ,.,j custom of observing New Years lay at home. ib and Mrs. Winship Nunnally will o Imine to their friends from 12:30 til - o'clock. The new home of Mr. Mrs Nunnally at Brookwood will „ visited by many of their friends dur ,,g these hours. Mr and Mrs. Doughty Manley will uo rtain 100 friends at an eggnog party X,ov Years day at 12 o'clock, at their home. lifs Luie Sergeant and her sister, Mrs. Fountain Rice, Jr., of Chattanoo _• i who is spending the holidays in At r iita will be at home to their friends n New Years day from 12 to’clock throughout the afternoon. Tite custom of keeping open house on N< w Years day will be enjoyed by the . -nbi rs of the Atlanta Woman’s club ;ind their friends.- From 4 to 6 o’clock ii.-re will be a reception at the club ooms on Baker street. T|o acting president and former pres ents will receive, assisted by the members of the executive board. Re freshments, will be served, while New V- .irs greetings are exchanged. Miss Traylor Entertains. in afternoon bridge party was ten .. Misses Eula Jackson and Marga tjrant today by Miss Margaret Traylor, which assembled a number of ■ popular college girls. The decora were in the holiday colors, with . .1 o.ses and narcissi, the flowers used. I -- Traylor's guests included, be the two honor guests. Miss Ad- < Hills and guests, Misses Natalie - ainpbell, of California; Elizabeth of Philadelphia: Adeline • o the University of Pennsyl- Miss Virginia Lipscomb and Miss Dorothy Carr, of Mis- Miss Alline Fielder and her -uest, Miss Elizabeth Robinson, of Dai- Texas; Miss Cora Brown and her su- st. Miss Harriet Benedict, of Ath ns, and Misses Laura Barber, of Grif tin: Josephine Mobley, Bertha Moore. Hattie Broyles, Dolly Prioleau. Grace Sims, Helen Brown, Amelia Smith, Gladys Clover. Helen Dykes. Van Sp.ihiing. Marie Dinkins, Lydia Mc- Bride. Katherine Wylie, Virginia Bow in'. Mary Carl Hut st. Lucile Kuhrt, Louise Broyles, Lawson Hines, Mamie \iisioy, Marion Vaughan, Mary King, Louise Cooper, Ferol Humphries, Kath rin* Crandall. Mary Rice. Christine Hoop. -, Isabel Robinson and Mary Brown. Miss Cushing Honoree. Potted plants, with greenery, formed tlu decorations throughout the home of Mrs. Porter King, on Peachtree road. ••May. when Miss Carolyn King gave a outlet luncheon for Miss Margot Cush ng, of Boston, Miss Eloise Oliver’s guest. In the dining room the table had for a enterpiece a silver loving cup filled vith Liberty rases, surrounded by white mshaded tapers in stiver candlesticks md silver compotes of red and white bonbons. Eight guests were enter tained. HAVE YOU A DEAF CHILD? The only' private school in the South for Deaf Children. Only school s-oiith teaching SPEECH exclusively. Most advanced methods; home life 1 nsurpassed results. Miss. Arbaugh’s School for Deaf Children 110 Rogers Ave. MACON, GA. \ A Pleasant. 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Full details regarding our liberal contracts are outlined. A postal request will bring both books promptly. Write for them today and start the New Year right bj investing in a correctly graded diamond. \laier Berkeley Inc. Gold and Silversmiths 31-33 Whitehall St. I Established 18S7 Atlanta. Ga. PERSONALS || ~ 1 Miss Mary Rosa Johnson is spend-1 ing the holidays in Savannah, the guest! of relatives. Miss Grace Mauck leaves tonight for a week's visit to friends in Jackson ville and Tampa. Mt. and Mrs. Not man Foster, of Trenton, N. J., will arrive January 1 to visit Mrs. Porter King. Mrs. Gemge W. Byington has gone to Florida for the winter, which will be spent at Daytona, Palm Beach and Jacksonville. She will return to At lanta in April. X Mr. Geoige W. Venable, of Jackson ville. Fla., is visiting relatives in At lanta, and will go to Birmingham for a stay with his brother before returning home A pretty party of today was that at which Miss Nelle Murphy entertained at her home on Gordon street in honor of Miss Elizabeth Hayes, who Is spend ing the holidays at home. Mrs. Charles A. Dana will remain in Atlanta for two weeks or more, and will be entertained next week at several pretty parties. Mr. Dana will come down on January 15 for a few days and accompany Mrs. Dana home. ANNOUNCEMENT S The regular monthly meeting of the Decatur Woman’s club has been post poned from Thursday, January 2, to Thursday, January 9, on account of no heat In the public school auditorium, the meeting place. A called meeting of the Atlanta Bur roughs Nature club will be held at Car negie library on the morning of Friday. January 3, at 10: So o'clock. This meet ing will be of particular importance to those members who desire to know which of the 300 useful species of birds to be found in Georgia, are the most helpful to farmers and who wish to study these birds from an educational, aesthetic and economic standpoint. Steps also will be taken toward forming walking parties for field work. The regular meeting of the Free Kin dergarten association will be held Mon day morning at 11 o’clock at the Carne gie library. MUSIC NOTES The choir of the Waliac Presbyte rian church will render Sunday even ing at 7:30 o'clock a Christmas can tata, entitled "The Angelic Choir,” by Adams. The choir members are Misses Ger trude Mason and Pearl and Lillian El lison, Mesdames Charlotte Brush, May- Cunningham, Addie Keith and Carl Cunningham, Messrs. J. F. Clark. G. B. Terrell, C. R. Cunningham and James I. Brush; Miss Etta Bogajski, organ ist, and Mr. J. I. Brush, director. Mrs. Seabrook Entertains. Mrs. William B. Seabrook was host ess at an informal bridge party of two tables this afternoon, given in honor of Miss Marguerite Beck, a bride-elect. The scores were kept on cards hand painted in exquisite French miniatures, and tile prizes included silk hose for top score, a new book for consola tion and collar and cuff set of embroid ered linen and cluny lace for the honor guest. Miss Alice Muse Entertains. Seventy-five boys and girls were guests of Miss Alice Muse at a danc ing party given last evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Muse, in Ansley Park. Holiday' decorations made the house most attractive, and the young hostess was charming in pink satin draped in white chiffon. CHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28. 1912. Indian Maid Wins. Masque Ball Prize A little Indian maid won the prize last night at the Nine O’clock German club's masquerade ball. Her pictur- j esque costume, draped with bright- I hued beads and quaint head dress with I scarlet feather, her little bead embroid- i ered moccasins, all were perfect and made up the costume adjudged the prettiest and most effective, from a large number of beautiful and artistic toilets. When the Indian maid un masked to receive her souvenir of tri umph, which was an enamelled circlet pin inset with small pearls, the laugh ing face of one of the season's most popular debutantes Was disclosed, giv ing Miss Helen Dargan the honors of the evening. This was quite a triumph for Miss Dargan, as many beautiful costumes were worn, by young girls and the young married women present. Three sisteis were a lovely group of old-fash ioned girls. These were Mrs. Frank Adair, Mrs. Charles A. Dana of New York and Miss L'eone Ladson. Mrs. Adair wore a quaint gown of pale pink taffeta, made with panniers and ruches, and worn with a wide-brimmed white leghorn hat adorned with a big blue ribbon bow and tied under her chin with blue streamers. Mrs. Dana wore a colonial costume with long bodice and panniers of blue brocade, over a petti coat of white satin, her powdered hair entwined with blue ribbon. Miss Lad son wore a flounced skirt of white chif fon caught with garlands of small pink roses, a bodice of white chiffon and lace and powdered hair. Mrs. Phinizy Calhoun, as a Turkish lady, was lovely In flowing wiiite chiffon draperies and a bewitching scarf, tinkling golden bracelets and bangles, and the typical face veil of the belles of Constantinople. Another Turkish lady in a similar costume which lends itself admirably to disguise which is both ef fective and fascinating was worn by Miss Emma Kate Amorous, the soft white folds of white proving as becom ing to her piquant dark /beauty as to the dainty blonde loveliness of Mrs. Calhoun. Mrs. Harry English was beautiful, as “Night,” in a silver spangled costume of black chiffon, with floating veils of chiffon around her blonde hair and shading her blue eyes. Miss Helen Payne and Mrs. Alex Smith. Jr., were charming old-fashion ed girls, and Misses Nina Gentry and (Alice Vandiver were quaint ‘‘little girls." Miss Laura Ansley' was a French maid, in the typical black gown with frivolous white apron and big black bow in her hair. Mrs. Leßoy Childs also represented a French maid. Misses Mary Helen Moody and Ruth Stallings were dressed alike, as Janice Meredith, in flowered muslin with pink panniers and basques, hair parted in braids, and carrying pink baskets of flowers. As usual at these affairs, there were several pretty' peasants of various na tions. Mrs. T. B. Felder was a Dinch girl, her long, fair hair worn in braids down her back and her costume an im ported one from the land of dykes and tulips. Miss Jennie D. Harris and Miss Passie May Ottley' were maidens from Sunny Spain. Miss Margot Cushing was a Norwegian peasant. Miss Anne Orme was Minnehaha. Miss Marjorie Brown was another veiled beauty of the Orient, while Miss Bessie Wood ward was a wandering daughter of the world, in her dashing gypsy disguise. Miss Harriet Calhoun wore a black domino with a white satin evening gown, and Miss Emily' Winship was Little Bopeep. Miss Carolyn King was “Folly,” in cap and bells, and Mrs. R. L. Cooney was also a Pierette. A dear “little girl,” in white frock and blue ribbons, who attracted much attention and admiration, was Miss Jessie Thompson, who was chaperoned by Mrs. Forrest Adair. Among the gentlemen present Mr. Neil Reid’s costume of Pierrot was ad judged the best, and lie received the prize, gold cuff links. Other men in costume were Messrs. Ed Gay, as a clown; Liiuren Foreman, a farmer; Do zier Lowndes, a skeleton: Westervelt Terhune, a. messenger boy; Charlie Sciple, a cowboy; Jesse Diaper, u. bish op; Joseph D. Osborne, a toreador, and Joe Brown Connally , a priest. FUTURE EVENTS Mrs. John Morris and the Misses Morris will entertain at a reception at their home on Washington street on Tuesday afternoon, January 7, in hon or of Mrs. John Morris, Jr. who was Miss Bessie Conroy, of East Orange, N. J., before her marriage last month and who is n charming acquisition to the ranks of Atlanta’s young matrons. Mrs. Frank L. Stanton will be at home tomorrow afternoon at 5:80 o'clock. Music will be a feature of the occasion. Miss Sappho Thrash will entertain Monday evening with a dancing party at the Brookhaven club. In honor of Miss Fay Dobbs and her guest, Miss Mary Lilian Warren, of Kansas City, Mo. Miss Polly Carter will give a box par- I ty at the Grand Monday afternoon for| Miss Dorothy Daves, who is at home from Brenau for the holidays. Mrs. <’paries E. Sciple will entertain at an informal tea Monday afternoon at her home on Peachtree street, in hon or of her sister, Mrs. Boykin Robin son. or New York, and for Mrs. Ring land F. Kilpatrick, of New York, who is the guest of her mother Mrs. Ju- I nius G. Oglesby' Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Blair Durham | will leave Monday to spend ; month motoring through FI.. .ft*r work they will go to Cuba _WEDDINGS L'Engle-Graham. The marriage of Miss Edith L’Engle and Mr. Francis R. Graham was quietly solemnized at the home of the bride's mother. Mrs, C. S. L’Engle, on Ponce DeLeon avenue, this afternoon. A wealth of greenery adorned the hous4, the bridal party standing before an al tar of palms, flanked on either side by cathedral tapers and pedestals bearing Easter lilies and narcissi. An aisle of smilax was caught with white tulle, and the white prie-deau was hung with j smilax. Throughout the other apartments hol iday' decorations of red and green were used. Tlie bride entered with her brother, Mr. Camille L’Engle, of Jacksonville, who gave her away. She was lovely in her bridal gown of white charmeuse satin with overdrapery of brocade satin caught with a garniture of point laee. The same lace adorned the corsage, with an embroidery of pearls. The bride wore her wedding veil of white tulle, with deep hem heavily embroidered and adjusted from a little cap. The bridal bouquet was of valley lilies. The bride’s sister, Miss Louise L'En gle, was maid of honor, and wore white marquisette and lace. Her flowers were red roses. Mr. Carroll Graham, of Bainbridge, was best man, and the groomsmen were Messrs. E. JI. Moore. Charles P. Glover, Philip L’Engle and F. B. Hubbard, of Jacksonville. Dr. C. B. Wilmer offi ciated. An informal reception followed the ceremony. The bride's table had for a centerpiece a large rose containing the souvenirs, which were drawn by white ribbons, and was surrounded by' vases of red roses and narcissi. Ropes of smilax were drawn from the chande liers and caught to clusters of red roses at the corners of the table. Punch was served by Miss Tracy L’Engle and Mrs. E. H. Moore. An or chestra played during the afternoon. The bridegroom’s mother, Mrs. Carrie Graham, of Bainbridge, wore gray tis sue. The bride’s grandmother, Mrs. Madeline L’Engle, of Jacksonville, wore black satin. Mr. Graham and his bride left dur ing the afternoon tor their wedding journey, the bride wearing a smart tai lored suit of taupe-colored cloth, with hat to match, trimmed in shaded plumes. Dull- Pemberton. Miss Elizabeth Dull and Mr. Wallace Pemberton, of Fort Scott, Ark., were married this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the First Methodist church, Dr. H. M. Dußose officiating. Miss Lucile Mcßae was maid of honor, the other attend ants being Miss Eloise Steele, of Lit tle Rock. Ark.; Mr. George Patterson, of Birmingham; Mr. Clifford McLaugh lin, of Little Rock, and Messrs. A. McD. Wilson, Jr., and Franklin Chalmers. The church was decorated in greenery and cut flowers. The bride wore her traveling suit of blue chiffon broadcloth, with blouse of blue chiffon and hat of taupe-colored plush, adorned with a paradise. She carried a shower bouquet of bride roses. Miss Mcßae wore blue crepe meteor with a black hat. and carried poinsettia blossoms, as did Miss Steele, who wore taupe-colored crepe meteor with a black velvet hat. Mrs. Dull wore black satin. The young couple left after the cere mony for Birmingham, and will then go to make their home in Arkansas. Miss Benedict Entertained. Miss Harriet Benedict, of Athens, is being extensively entertained as the guest of Miss Cora Brown, at the exec utive mansion. This afternoon Miss Fay Dobbs was hostess at a pretty tea for Miss Benedict, a large number of the younger set calling between 4 and 6 o’clock. The interior of the Dobbs home was attractive with cut flowers and greenery. Miss Dobbs was assisted In entertaining by a group of special friends, among whom were Misses Cora Brown. Mary Murphy. Clio Prioleau, Wyckliffe Wurm, Grace Sims, Dorothy Selby, Emma Jordan. Pauline Randall. Sappho Thrash, Mary Lilian Warren, and Myra Clark Scott. Last evening Miss Benedict was ten dered a dance by her aunt, Mrs. Robert Zahner. who was assisted in doing the honors of the occasion by Mrs. Rogei Dewar and Miss May Haverty. Miss Patterson Entertains. Miss Anne Patterson’s buffet supper last evening was a compliment to her guest. Miss Jane Young, of Lexington, Ky. Poinsettia blossoms and other hol iday' decorations were used, and the young hostess was assisted in enter taining by a group of friends. If you are troubled with chronic con stipation, tin mild and gentle effect of Chamberlain’s Tablets makes them es pecially suited to vour case. For sal< by all dealers. (Advt.l THAT $2.50 GOLD PIECE You received for Christmas will buy an “Ideal Waterman Pen” at Jno. 1,. Moore Sons’. Complete selection on hand. 42 N. Broad St. fAdvt.) MONTGOMERY CATERS ONLY TO THE BEST. ALWAYS GOOD Montgomery would not put on cheap vaudeville it it would Increase his re ceipts ten-fold. His one ambition, his one idea, is to produce the best mov ing pictur-'. and while tite receipts may not be as great at first, his future is certain. Whether comic, drama or educational, the pictures shown at this beautiful theater ate certain to impress any one with tit fact that they are clean and wholesome. (Advt.t First Class Finishing and En larging A complete stock tUrne. plates, papers, chemicals, etc. ■pedal Mall Order department tor •et-ot-town customer*. •end ter Catalog and Price Llet. I *. K. K.AWKtS CO -.Kiduli Depadmui I ■ M WhlMhah et. 6TUANTA, »A.J ROADS DETERMINED TO FIX STATUS OF RULES ON MILEAGE CHARLESTON, S. C.. Dec. 28.—Ex aminers Ryan and Eider, of the inter state commerce commission, today con tinued the hearing on mileage book regulations of Southeastern railroads. The session probaldy will continue | through today , after taking a recess at 11 o’clock last night. William Schirmer and H. J. Craig, of the Atlantic <’oast Line, and S. H. Hardwick, of the South ern railway, have testified so far. I South Carolina's recent law for pull ing mileage on trains is playing a prom inent part, with Georgia’s now regula tions also a factor. The railroads are determined to fix the status on use of mileage books be fore the interstate commerce commis sion, Tite South Carolina railroad com mission holds the mileage book regula tions unreasonable and discriminatory. The railroads are arguing strenuously to the contrary, through Attorneys Thom, of the Southern, and Alston, of the Coast Line, and tite railroads’ ex pert witnesses. South Carolina con tends that the ticket exchange rule is unreasonable, and failure to permit in terstate trips on Intrastate mileage books is discriminatory, BIG GADSDEN HARDWARE COMPANIES CONSOLIDATE GADSDEN. ALA., Dec. 28.—An nouncement was made today of the merger of the Smith-Echols-Burnett Hatdware Company and the Ewing Hardware Company into what will be known as the Gadsden Hardware Com pany, having a capital stock of $150,- 000. Charles P. Smith, president of the Smith-Echols-Burnett company, will be president of the new concern. The two companies have been in ex istence 25 years and are of the oldest mercantile establishments in Gadsden. CANTATA TO BE REPEATED AT FIRST M. E. CHURCH The cantata. "The Star of Promise." which was rendered at the First Meth odist church last Sunday, will be re peated tomorrow evening at 7:30, with 25 in the chorus. Featuring the morning program will be organ prelude and postlude, the anthem, “They Were Shepherds." and the offertory', “Oh. Holy Night.” and in the evening the organist, Miss Mamie Lee Bearden, will conduct the cantata. The organ will render "The March of the Magi Kings,” and Mr. Bickford and chorus will sing "Behold. For Zion’s Sake.” Others assisting in the cantata will be Miss Spritz. Miss DeFor, Misses Martha and Daisy Bearden and Mr. Nance. OIL FOUND ON POOR LAND MAKES INDIANS WEALTHY 1 MUSKOGEE. OKLA.. Dee. 28.—Im mense deposits of oil have been struck on the reservation which was literally forced upon the Snake Indians, and each aborigine will be worth thousands ■ of dollars, through leases on the land ‘ and royalties on the output. Winter Rashes Demand Use Os L 1 fli Il V L r\ / y / /S\ I )\ I i' r si .JK '\j X-* 1 Cuticura Soap and Ointment ; Frost bites, chappings, chafings, red, I rough and tender faces and hands, . eczemas, itchingsandirritationsinci i dental to winter sports are promptly I relieved by warm baths with Cuti- I > cura Soap, followed by gentle aje j plications of Cuticura Ointment. i 1 t Cuticura Soap und Ointment »-.w throughout the worta Libera’ sample of each xnaihid free, with } 32-p book. Addnw Cutfcara.*' Dept. 15P B«.»u«n. 9T Tnrv)er-*ac«M .net .lave Wi comfort Witt <’utl cura Soap Shaving Stick. 26c Mberal sample free. I i Inexpensive Jewelry Gifts < At CranksliH w’s you’ll find numerous dainty little gift arti , (des in new and original designs, 1 in inexpensive as well as the i higher grades. Shirtwaist rings, collar pins, bar pins, scarf pins, tie clips, fobs. Lockets, crosses, beads, card cases and all the latest vanities. Charles W .Crankshaw Jeweler. I Atlanta National Bank Bldg. 1 FATHER HELD FOR h SON BEING KILLED IN HOLD-UP PLOT| GRAND JUNCTION, COLO., Dec. 28. J. B. Lindsley is being held by the po- I lice today while an inquest into the : death of his fifteen-year-old son was ' begun by the coroner. The lad was 1 shot to death by a sheriff s posse while 1 he was guarding the entrance of a bank 1 in which the father attempted to cash ‘ a $5,000 cheek. Father and son, earlier in the day, had gone to the office of the Loma Canning Company, and 1 with drawn revolvers and threats of; death, forced J. E. Quear to make out a i 1 check to Lindsley. 1 The two went to a bank, where they ■ tried to get the check cashed. The boy was told to stand outside and watch. Tite sheriff, Steve Nichols, with a num ber of deputies, who had been notified of th.' occurrence by Quear. came to ward the bank. Young Lindsley, with out waiting to be asked to surrender, or without calling on the posse to halt, began firing. The posse men returned tite tire and he dropped dead. The fa ther surrendered. CHAUFFEUR AND RICH GIRL-WIFE SEPARATED EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO. Dec. 28. ' Mrs. Helen Peach Costello, daughter of a wealthy porcelain manufacturer. has been granted a divorce from William postello, who was her father’s chauffeur. The pair eloped in June, 1912. She left her husband immediately afterward, and he sued her parents for damages for alienation of affections. He received S3OO in settlement out of court. The divorce ease was not contested. WILSON SORRY HE CAN'T ATTEND BOY'S PARTY PITTSBURG, Dec. 28.—Master John Paul Mansniann received a letter of regret from President-elect Wilson be cause of tile latter’s inability to attend the boy's birthday party here today. -M < vk ' C /liMk? The Best Coffee You Ever Tasted NO COFFHB KN JO VS TH« INDIIPITED DISTINVTION OF KU A LITT AS DOFS MAXWELL HOUSE BLEND IT HAS RKKN ON THS MARKKA FOR MANY VKARs. ALWAYS CFVTNO SATISFACTION TO THOSE WHO USE IT ASK YOUR GROCER FOR IT CHEEK-MEAL COEEEE CO. NASHVILLK, TKNN. HOUSTON, TEN. JACKSONYTLIH, FLA. MARRIAGE INVITATIONS Reception and Visiting Cards CORRECTLY AND PROMPTLY ENGRAVED SEND FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES J. P. STEVENS ENGRAVING CO., Forty-seven Whitehall Street Atlanta, Georgia Increase Yoitr Resources TIiENTIFY yourself with this Bank, whose * penuanenf success is the result of capable ntanagenienl and conservative banking- princi ples. Increase your resource's by depositing your surplus money in this Bank; il will be steadily augmented by four per cent interest, com pounded seini-ann uall\. Central Bank & Trust Corporation Candler Building. Branch: ('or. Mitchell and Forsyth Stroet.s. CHAMBER TO ASK CITY AND COUNTY TO AID IN CONVENTION FUND An appeal to the city council and tu tlie Fulton coupty court of commis sioner. for help toward obtaining a $10,009 fund for the establishment of a convention bureau will be made by tu* i'hambe,- of Commerce. The decsion to take tlie step was reached at a meeting of tlie special committee on a conven tion bureau, held yesterday afternoon. Wilmer Moore, president of the Chamber of Commerce, will iead in the presentation of the petition to the [finance committees of the council and lof the county commission. Requests of aid from the public bodies will be for relatively small amounts, u large part of tii. fund necessary to support tlie bureau already having been obtained. It is deenu-d necessary that a guar ant*. of sl'l,ooo a year for two years should In.- in hand if .i bureau be estab lished to effectively set forth the claims of Atlanta as a city for notional eon vent ions. SON. NEARBY, IGNORANT OF HIS FATHER’S DEATH GADSDEN. ALA.. Dec. 28.—A. M. Sims, a labor boss, dropped dead last night of heart failure. He had partea from iris son. John Sims, who went to a boarding house, and walked only a short distance along the street when lie fell dead. The body was taken to an undertaking establishment one block from where bis son and his wife were stopping, but they did not know of the death until this morning. TOBACCO DEATH TO GERM OF CHOLERA. IS DISCOVERY PARIS, Dec. 28.—Tobacco kills the cholera germ, in the opinion of M Wenck, noted scientist, u ho made tests during recent cholera epidemic... 5