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the ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. All Around The Town Litt.e Fact* and Fancies About Well-Known Atlantan*. South'Georfia Conference Sounds Warning for Benefit of So ciety Debutantes. MACON. IX«- 1. The t the eommitv*** on temp'-rar o, moral the lf*n- and aorle.1 inform do< t loncy of th«* Mm« in ropapd •• Iro^n, danclnir and oth*r all< rcv1 *vils r vn unanimouMy adopts! wltfiou cliange by tho Sraith Oonnrg'a. MothotUst Con fornco to day Direct «.f t,n<* < >n Harris wa* c*mmen<le<] for di*- harprlna drinking rnon in h* dp !>artni«nt. A part of the repan 1«c “Your committen fot*ls tbai this < onferenop abould express itxeif on *om*» of the modern fads that arc hurtful to our people Some fads ir» only sins and aome debutante-- haven’t ppusp nouffh to know t and should I be told. "The ahameful and indecent, if not immoral, dance* in vojrtie hut justify the position our cliurvlr ha* alwaya taken on the subvert of dancing These shameful o*K" are hut the normal and natural f ontfe'ruence* of this sin “Dancing was never *<• very de- i ■ ent. and (’hero was no* far wmitr when he aaid. No man being sober! will dance.’ Parisian Dress Scored. Another fad musing shame and j leading to sin <* the Importation of) and adoption of Parisian ehame in the way of feminine <-o»ittime. Why our goo 1 women should how down and worship *otne styles tiiat a re neither decent nor pretty and makes the wearer to appear as If deformed, 1* marvelous to ux "Oh, that women could realize that modesty of appe t.ni n< h will do more to make woman beautiful 1 and attrac tive than aJl the fane\ dressing of all the cities of the world." The 1914 session "f the South Georgia Methodist Conference will he held In Pnvson, meeting probably during Thanksgiving week Thomnsvllle was an applicant but Dawson received an overwhelming vote This afternoon Bishop Candler will announce th* appoint mom- for the en suing year as the list business of the conference. It is very likely that the Rev T. I». Kills will he ap|H>lnted prr skiing elder of the Macon District, being succeeded at Wesley .Monumental Church iu Savannah by either I lie Kev. Osgood K. Cook or the Rev. Paul Kills. The Rev. W V Ainsworth will continue as pastor of Mulberry Street Church In this city. USE OF CALOMEL PRACTICALLY STOPPEO Dangerous Drug Giving Way for Safer, More Reliable Remedy. 4 Hundreds of people in this vicinity alone have stopped the use of danger our calomel when their liver I* acting slowly, and take Dodson’s Diver Tone instead Dodsons Liver Tone Is always .sate and has none of fhe bad aftereffects which so often follow the use of calo mel It is a pleasant-tastlng vegeta ble liquid that starts the liver gently and surely, and relieves constipation and biliousness and causes no restriction of habit or diet. Many preparations have sprung tip that imitate the claim* made for In*! son s ldver Tone, but remember Dod son's Diver Tone Is the tried and tested remedy that has proven such a good medicine and is so satl»factor> to every user is the reason these imitation* are on the market Dodson's Diver Tone can not hurt anyone and if it fails to do all that 1* claimed for It all druggists who sell It will give your money back with s smile Advt FYlonds of Fred Houser, the secre tary of the Atlanta Convention Bu res j, are just nding out why he Is *9r\ conspicuously silent whenever an body begins talking about what happened on the last lap of the re • ent induairtaJ excursion staged bv th« f'lumber of Commerce Industrial Bureau. FTe is loquacious to the nth degree on all subjects pertaining to , the first heat of the excursion until the said excursion goi as far as tee Atlanta Steel Works. From then on he is aiv silent as th« proverbial grave. And here is why: One of the greatest desires Hou*er has ever ; had lias been to see somebody tnak- ! ing nails, and he never had an op- l porttinlty before the industrial ex- urslon took in the steel plant Bo when the crowd detrained to inspect i ihp h'<<- work*, Houser hied himaeif ! to the nail department. where he |lMti • long I !<, ah • that he was still gloating when the train pulled out without him. Though lie insists he didn't, it i* it j matter of common knowledge that he i walked a mile to catch a street car. Thomas K Penland, the genial head bookkeeper of the T K. Saw - tell Company, who lives at No. id Washington street, has two distinc tion* these days that mark him as radically different from the ordinary mortal. In the first place he’s about the only man in Mlanta who had a Thanksgiving turkey and forgot to cat it or anything else. And then | he's fhe father of the bouncingest of ■ bouncing baby boys The second is j the cause of the first. The little I stranger arrived early Thanksgiving morning and was promptly named Thomas K.. Jr , and then Thomas K. Hr. assumed that expression of beatific toy and price tnat always mark* the new father a* a man among men He had a wonderful furkev with mine eyes I saw it and know it to be so and he had it all rOASttd and stuffed until It WAS culinary triumph. But he was busy admiring the new heir to hi* name and fortune* that he didn’t eat a bite all day. To paraphrase: Father wa* so happy he was dan cing with Joy All he. could say was, "Gee! I'm glad It's a boy!” \Y H Leahy, secretary of the In dustrial Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce, is getting his head filled with figures these day*. Hen pre paring a booklet on Atlanta’* banks, and he *avs he neer knew how much money there wax in the world until he got hold of some of the financial statement* of local banks. The book let will contain histories of all the banks In the city, together with fig ure* showing their resource* and growth. Billy Quarles, who is one of the high-class employees of the Fain At Stamps Wholesale Grocery Company, never drinks a drop of anything stronger than coffee, and the other night when the firm’s employees had a banquet at the Piedmont, his pro- hlbltionlstlc „ tendencies were paid marked tribute. They gave him a baby bottle full of milk, with instruc tions to go away olY by himself and get "soused." But William fooled t item ull. He's got a young son out at hi* house who just dotes on milk, and few of hm fellow employees knew anything about the youngster. Ho instead of being real devilish and getting on a "milk Jag ’ lie took the bottle home and let "George do It." NORTH GEORGIA COTTON BEST. DALTON, Dec. 1 According to a statement made here by C. \Y. Smith, Jr., a cotton buyer represent ing lace und thread manufacturers of Euro peon countries. North Georgia and North Alabama have the best grade of cotton to be had this year. MW MEAT m TUBERCULOSIS LATEST'CUBE' Winner of Nobel Prize for Medi cine Announces Tedious But Almost Certain Treatment. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. PA RIB, Dec. 1.—Professor Charles Riehef, the distinguished scientist to whom was awarded the Nobel prize for medicine this year, announces that tuberculosis can be cured with raw meat Juice. "The treatment is d filrult to fol low." he says, "but I have prdved its effectiveness. Eve»*y day the patient must go to a slaugnter house, obtain ten pound* of fresh meat, then ex tract the revivifying juice from it. This in a long and tedious taak. Ten pounds of meat yield about half a pint of Juice, which should lie con served on ice. ‘ My patient* who were suffering from tuberculosis of the lungs were cured by this treatment, although it had to be followed faithfully for three years. "1 admit It is a costly as well as a difficult remedy, but it is a certain one in all but the most advanced cases. I do not believe any serum exist* which will cure (he dread dis ease.’’ Tuberculosis kills more than 120 - 000 persons in France yearly, accord ing to Dr. Albert Calmette, who is trying to get the French Government to give to scientists an uninhabited island off Guinea, where experiments may be made with monkey* with the view to eradicate the white plague, of which one in seven of human adults die*. Dr. Calmette has discovered a vac cine which has given to calves im munity from tuberculosis He has mixed most virulent Koch bacilli In their food and inoculated them under the flesh, pumping hundreds of mil lions of germs into their veins. But even' calf vaccinated by his method beforehand has resisted the disease — post-mortem «xht lnation failing to reveal the slightest traces of the af fection. Dr. Calmette admits, however, his experiments are not conclusive as to his effective treatment of humans. Writes Carlisle to Keep Abreast Times WASHINGTON, Doc. 1.—A letter was received at the Treasury De partment from a correspondent In Wisconsin, addressed to the “Hon. John G. Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury." The writer requested that las be sent some documents "in order that 1 may keep abreast of the times." Mr Carlisle was Secretary of the Treasury 20 years ago, and has been dead almost ten years. Doerun Complains Of Freight Rates THOM ASVIRRE, Dec. 1.—The town of Doerun, Colquitt County, has filed a complaint before the Inter state Commerce Commission, alleging a discrimination in freight rate* by railroads against that town. It is claimed that the freights to Doerun are higher than those of oth er towns in this section similarly located. CONVICTS FIGHT IN CAGE. I DADTON. Dec. 1 A hurry call for physicians came from the convict ramp north of here after four negro! "lifers” had engaged in a fight in one of the cages. It was necessary to mend a broken head and sew up some j knife wounds Placing of Massive Ben Hur Race Scene Draws Large Crowd Crowd* gathered about the stage ♦ ntrari '* to the Atlanta Theater Mon- da > to witness one of the wonders of stagecraft-—the preparation* for the production of "Ben Hur." which open Monday night for on** week. Motors, gearing, tackle, hug. cylin drical structures <ind endless rolls of canvas were visible on all sides, with ■j score of workmen hurrying to and fro under the guidance of a master mechanic. The most intricate mechanism is •that is*d in the chariot race, when twelve horses race madly before the eves of the audience. The Illusion require*- a movable floor on the stage whereon the animals gallop though never change their positions, and a cylindrical device upon which 3,000 square feet of canvas depicting tine amphitheater unfold* at the rear with ightning rapidity to bear out the rac ing horse*. A hundred extra persons are being trained into their part* as spectator*. DflCTIUIUQTER III I Butting Match Draw rlJuIIV Hu ILn f ILL, I With Negro and Goa Goat Mail Theft Suspects Trapped by Sleuth A plant" set by R. E Barry, in spector of mails, in November in (in.'intanamo, Cuba, bore fruit bun- da, when O. Hunter and John Grains, two sailor postmasters,” were ar rested at Havana charged with tnert of registered mall. For over a year the ma.ls coming in and going out of the central ship iit the navaJ station at Guantanamo have been tampered with, .lust a v( >ar ago Barry went from Atlanta to the station, but his Investigation was futile. . . , In November Barry went back to Cuba and set a trap for the mail riflerfi. A wireless telegram from the naval station this morning from J. w. Adamson and Frank Pulsipher, two local inspectors, announced the arrests. Egg Famine Menaces Christmas Time ‘Nog 1 THOMASV1LLE, Dec. 1.—Those w-ho think Christmas is not properly celebrated without the time-honored eggnog are uneasy lest there be no fresh eggs, because of an egg famine in this section. They can still get the “nog" part from neighboring states, where liquor laws are less stringent, but it looks now as if they may be obliged to go against custom and leave out the egg. Connoisseurs say eggnog is not good when made with shipped or storage eggs. U. S. Jury Takes Up Sellers ‘Slave’ Case The Federal Grand Jury, in session Monday at Columbus, will take up the case of J. B. Sellers, who took lit tle Mark Coker from her Banks Coun ty home to Fort Worth. Texas. Sellers took the Coker girl through Columbus, where he bought tickets to a point in Oklahoma. This gives the Jury jurisdiction. Fire Damages Plant Of Savannah Press SAVANNAH, Dec. 1.—The office of The Savannah Press was badly damaged by a fire that started early Sunday morning. The business office was com pletely gutted and the machinery flood ed. A force of workmen was turned into the building at once and an edition will not be missed. Business Men Here to Meet at Luncheon to Devise Way to Keep Pest Out of Georgia. One hundred Atlanta, business men will engage in a finish fight with the boll weevil, the greatest enemy of the cotton grower, In an effort to keep the crop dlstroyer out of Georgia. The men will be the guests of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce at a lunch eon at Hotel Ansley Tuesday after noon. Plan* will be discussed as to the best way to co-operate with the Georgia farmers in the fight. That the business men are alive to the importance of keeping this pest out of Georgia is shown by the num ber of invitations to the luncheon which have been accepted. Presi dent Charles J. Haden, of the Geor gia Chamber of Commerce, Issued in vitations to all the leading business men. Among the Atlantans who will at tend the luncheon are L. P. Botten- fleld, O. Palmore, Joel Hunter, Lloyd B. Parks, E. C Kontz, Bolling H. Jones, John H. McKenzie, Haraldson Bleckley, J. B. MoCrary, Joseph A. McCord, B. M. Grant, H, A. Rogers. George M. Hope, George M. Brown, | C. B. Howard. P. S. Arkwright, L. H ; Beck, C. B. Bidwell, C. E. Buchanan, Peter F. Clarke. F. J Cooledge, W. J. Dabney, L. J. Daniel, S. C. Dobbs. R J. Eiseman. C. S. Elyea. H. A. Ethridge, Louis Gholatin, Charles P. Glover, Henry W. Grady, F. R. Gra ham, H. G. Hastings, J. T. Holle- m&n, C. H. Johnson, I. Lipstlne, W. J. Loewensteln. C. \V. .McClure, F, W. McKee, Haynes McFadden, G. W. McKenzie, Norman C. Miller. R‘. B. Parker, William F. Parkhurst, Jacob Patterson, W. L. Peel, G. H. Perry, J. B. Pound. Paul P. Reese, L. C. Rhodes, M. B. Slesslnger. Alec W. Smith, W. O. Steele, B. E. Watkins, I A. J. West, H. G. White. W. H. White. Jr., J. H. Wlenski. Courtland S. : Winn. Edgar Watkins, Frank C. Wel- | don, J. K- Ottley, W. H. Leahy. Wil- mer L. Moore, Walter G. Cooper, Robert J. Yokry, W. P. Venable, W. J. Blalock, Robert F. Maddox. J. K. Orr, C. E. Currier. Brooks Morgan, W. W. Orr, F. J. Paxon, J. W. Eng lish, W. D. Owens. St. Elmo Massen- gale. J, C. Kirkland, of Homerville, Found Dying in Home as Fam ily Returns From Visit. MOULTRIE. Dev. 1.—A stubborn butting contest between a billy goat and Mose Johnson, a hard-headed negro—a regular arena battle, waged for 20 minutes in a local coal yard— resulted in a draw between the man and animal. Neither was able to butt the other off his feet. Some time ago Mono tried butting with'a short-horned goat, and the goat got the worst of it. TO WALK ACROSS CONTINENT. VALDOSTA. Dec. 1.—D. V. Vanc« and J. H. Bailey, two young Va.dji- tans. are pre pan i to start early i n tho new year on a w.* k acres* fn* continent to tha Panama Exposition in San Francisco. BUSINESS NOTICE. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take LAX ATT VR BROMO QUININE Tablets. Druggists refund money tf . fails -to cure. E. W. DROVE'S signa ture is on each box. 25c. HOMERVILLE, GA., Dec. 1.—Da vid E Kirkland, postmaster of this town, committed suicide at his home late Sunday because of ill health. He was a sen of the late J. C. Kirkland, one of the pioneer settlers of this section, was about 45 years old and had held the position of postmaster for twelve years or more. Kirkland Is survived by ms wife and four rhildreri, Orte, Maude, Mot- Itn and Rammte, the oldest of whom was married this year to Folks Hux- ford. the present assistant postmas ter. Kirkland had been in 111 health for several months. barely escaping death last summer from pellagra Kirkland's family had spent Sat urday night and Sunday fourteen miles out in the country' with rela tives and when they returned home about dusk Kirkland was found lying | upon the floor In a front room of the home, a bullet wound In his right tempt* He never regained con- j setousness and died at 7 o’clock. No Inquest was held. Club Women Called To Cut Price of Eggs CHICAGO. Dec. 1.—A cal! was sent : out over Illinois to-day asking 300.000 j member* of women'* club* to co-operatn with the Clean Food. Club of Chicago in ! trvlng to force down the price of eggs j The women were urged to advocate the j shipment of fresh eggs to Chicago by parcel r*>st to eliminate the commission men s profit, which the club members blame for the high cost of eggs. one thousand five hundred Chicago women have Joined the boycott against j eggs. m mr m ■ w aa CASTOR IA For Infant* and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Stop at Atlanta's Newest and Finest Hotel W inecoff m Blackstone of the South Is the Hotel Winecoff Atlanta Tourists To See Great Canal A party of Atlantans, conducted by John T. North, is to start Tuesday afternoon on a eighteen-days’ tour of Panama and Central America. The party will spend two day* viewing the “big ditch.’’ Among the Atlantans in the party will be Dr. and Mrs. E. L. Connally, Mrs. Luther Z. Rosser, Miss Sally Brown. P. G. Han&h&n, Mrs. F. T. Lamb, Louis Camak, L. K. Hudson. Dr Harry E. Stockhridge, \V. M. Nichols, Miss Lizzie Maeaijley, Mrs Horace Jones. Elijah A. Brown, Mrs. M. Wallace, Mias M. Walker. Charles A. Conklin and Thomas W. Connally. We have moved to our new store, 97 Peachtree Street. ATLANTA FLORAL CO. A Message of Vital Importance to Women Heed the Warnings of Nature! before serious harm befall you and you become a chronic invalid. Backache, headache, low spirits, lassitude, bearing down pains are hard enough to bear, and they give you notice that the delicate femi nine organs are not performing their functions in the way intended by Nature. Act. Don’t wait. Secure at once the help you need. DR. PIERCE'S Favorite Prescription (In Tablet or Liquid Form) has been used with entire satisfaction for over forty years and to the lasting benefit of thousands upon thousands of suffering women. You will find similar benefit. You will find Dr. Fierce’s Favorite Prescription efficient in regulating all womanly functions, correcting displacements, removing pain at certain times, in toning the nerves and improving the general health and making life worth while. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription has been sold in liquid form; but now it may be obtained in either tablet or liquid form from all dealers in medicines—or send 50 one-cent stamps and obtain by mail a trial box of the tablets from Dr. Pierce. Hiiiniiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiim Now a New Woman Mr*. HOGG M-rS. Carrt<* /. Wooo of I>fl Kail, (\tltj.. trrtlr.fl 1 am thankful l'or tho oppor- i unity to ser.ila f eHtim.Hital. I had boon bother**d for six \ r**r» with norvousn** ««. a catarrhal condition which only wotnon aro subject to and irroR-ilarity. Tried sev eral mod ic i nos but ail fsiiod. I was advised by my friends * lift Dr. Fierce s modi • not a trial. Have taken >tir bottle* of ‘Favorite F*ascription* and two of '(toloen Medical Discovery' and I cannot say eno i*h in regard to the benefit ro- eeived. "Will t yilsainre m rse- ommendin* your medicines to all weak and sufferinc women everywhere I go. t' you wish f•* know how best to care for vourseif or for your . ,'dreti. send tot a lire copy ot Dr Pisrce's great book, The Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser. This will show \ ou what to do m emaruerio and at any time help you to pic •c ve ot maintain the health of your whole family. Send .<1 u event stamps to pav the cost of wrapping and matling and S*t your Dee copy of this 1008page, cloth bound book. Address DR. FIERCE. Invalids’ Hotel. Buffalo, N.Y. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets give tone and strength to stomach, liver and bowels. One to three tiny granules a dose. Pleasant to take as candy. JiMimuiuuiimmiiii DR. E. G. GRIFFIN IS OFFERING Special Low Prices For the Next 30 Days Back ot this otter is a Dental expe rience ot 23 years and an absolute GUARANTEE Buy U by the box of nearly all dealers for 85 cents Clean, pure healthful WRIGLEYSk SPEARMINT , 1“ c V / / / No Soreness of Gums $ ] [j g g j jJ_ With Golddust Plates □ Made Same Day Our GoldduU Plates are the Strongest and Lightest Made. $10 $5 CROWN AND ^2 fi E lTed 50c up | Painless Extraction 50c dust Plates $8.00 Set ot Teeth , . . CROV BRIDGE WORK TEETH DR. E.G. GRIFFIN’S GATE CITY DENTAL ROOMS VI I sent by the box—of twenty packages—a hundred sticks— a hundred hours of joy—is a gift they 9 1! keep on enjoying long after other gifts are put aside. Nearly all dealers will gladly sell it at above price! ‘The Beneficial Confection” is sure to please old and young. It’s ideal for holidays because it’s delicious aid to appetite and digestion. 24V* Whitehall Street. Telephone M. 1708 Over Brown & Allen’s Ladv Attendant \W\ CAUTION! The great popularity of the ctcan, pare, heattbSul WRIGLEYSh. whsMs^ is causing unscrupulous pert- sons to wrap rank imitations that are not even real chewing gum so they resemble genuine WMGLEY*S. The better class of stores will not try to fool you with these imitations. They will be offered to you principally by street fakirs, peddlers and the candy depart ments of some 5 and 10 cent stores. These rank {irritations cost dealers one cent a package or even less and are sold to careless people for almost any price. If you want Wrigiey*a look before you buy. Get what you pay for* Painless Dentistry Cra * n a|lfl Bridie work Is possible in the vast ma jority of oases, and we make it a practice in every such ease to giv* our patients absolute assurance that they need fear no pain. Twenty- three years in dentistry and thousands o f fled pa tients is or guarantee. Porcelain orGold-Faced Reinforced by 22-K Gold. He v °Hi ^ SURE it’s WRSGLEV’S 4 We are in?ertinR theab^ve caution solely to protect our customer?, who are continually writing us tnat tao nave Deeo oeceivea ov umtauoa6 wiuen they purchased tianicuur th«* were WRfciiTS