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V — - 1 VTTF ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. M FINANCE If] gift suggestions POURING IN AS END OF CONTEST NEARS Stockholder Sues to Compel Of ficials of Bankrupt System to Disgorge $4,000,000. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 12,- The stock holder has turned on the directors, this is the latest development in the affairs of the -Frisco Railroad. A demand that B. F. Yoakum. I'homas II. West, the estate of ICdwin Hawley and other millionaire former a (rectors of the Frisco Railway Sys tem be forced to disgorge $4,000 000 iiaa been filed in the United States Circuit Court here. The\ are accused nf misusing their positions as direct ors or the Frisco to force that com pany to pay fabulous prices for com paratively worthless short line roads, which the directors themsi Ives per- sonally owned. Frenzied finance, maneuvering the tunds of die company, and “secret and fraudulent profits made h> the di rectors accused" are declared to be responsible for the road’- bankrupt. \ High Officials Named. Some of the men named as defend ants In the petition arc William K. Hixby. former director of the Frisco and now receiver for the Wabash; James Uamphelk former vice presi dent of the Frisco and now president of the North American Company whirl, brought the receivership suit, and several associates noi connected with tile railroad. Tlie transactions complained of and amounts claimed to lun. been .-pent tire: Brownsville road, $1,031.288.01 • The Iberia Railroad, $500,non The "Southern," $700,000. St. Louis and Gulf, $1,385 000 Nine small railroads (Houck. Sys tem). $28,000. Oklahoma Cit> and Western .Mfii - 000 Total. *4,013,288.01. In some Instances, it is charged, the roads sold at. exorbitant prices have ever since been burdens to the Frls- ro, and they have never earned any profits, and are not likely to. Created Great Debts. "Because of the careless, negligent improvident and fraudulent manner in which branch lines of railroads and so-called 'feeder' lines have been pur chased by and in behalf of the F,-is- anar 1, Koo d ’ r rea L in * an indebtedness and liability for the payment or which he Frisco is liable, amounting to about $40,000,000," the petition savs " P-Jv a " d declares that an annual Intelest charge of $1,600,000 has also been created. By MARY LEA DAVIS It’s now only a few days until Christmas. If you ‘haven’t selected that present for your husband, it’s about time you were thinking about it. Also, if you are a married man. it behooves you to select a gift for your wife. Hundreds and hundreds of readers of The Georgian are interested in the present-giving question. I know, be cause I have read alt the letters on the subject which have come to my desk. I am trying to print as many of these letters as possible because lots of them contain excellent sug gestions which may be of use to YOU. If you haven’t written a letter, read the following offer and let us have the benefit of your idea: HERE IS MY OFFER To the irifr who writes the best short tetter telling what is the most useful pi ft for a husband, one SfO gold piece. Three awards of $o each will lx given tin' Hires whose letters are adjudged the next best. 1 Iso, I will award the same prizes to husbands tv ho write brief tetters outlining the most appro priate gift for a husband to give his irilr. Tor the husband's tetter that is adjudg'd I tie best the writer trill receive a $10 gold piece. Hus bands -who write the three next best loiters will receive. rath, a $!) gold piece for their thoroughness. Send Hour tetters addressed to MARY LEA DAVIS. Editorial Department, The At- tenta Georgian. Here are some letters just received: HIS GIFT TO HER. Miss Mary Lea Davis: Of all the gifts my wife gets on Christmas, she says this is the one six- most appreciates: Yfe have been married a quarter of a cen tury and 1 have never yet failed to tell her on Christmas morning how * much I loved tier and how dear and necessary site is to me. And T take the opportunity to mention the par ticular ways she has pleased me the past year, and if she has saved me any money by good manage ment-and she always has—it is in her stocking with my other gifts to her. And that is what J will do again this year. SOUTHERN MAX Menlo, Ga JUST WHAT HE WANTED. Miss Mary Lea Davis: In my mind’s eye, the following scene is brought before me. which illustrates my idea of useful gift- giving: Frances, our small daughter, is standing by the bed Christmas morning, shaking Daddy and say ing: “ 'Ere. Daddy, Sana Taus b'ing you dis.' Daddy opens his sleepy eyes and sees in her tiny hands two small packages. He investigates: Monogram ruff buttons. He smiles. Tie has been wearing odds and ends nf Mamma sent his perfectly good noes to the laundry and—they came back. Daddy laughs and unfolds a large, black, silky square. “Oil,’’ he says, "that muf fler l needed a month ago so badly to sling m.N arm when 1 nearly lost two fingers. ’ and he grins. I am out of the corner of my eye and I am happy because T know tiiev arc just what he wanted. MRS. F. T. k Atlanta, Ga FOR WIFE’S COMFORT. Mi.-- Mary Lea Davis: 1 was married at the age of 18 and have had twenty-fly© years of married life. The first Christmas gift I mndo to m> wife was a gold watch, which she still cherishes. M> experience in making gifts to my wife and observing the gifts of other men to their wives has con vinced me that the most appro priate gifts for a wife are some thing to make the home more com fortable ami lighten the duties of housekeeping and homekeeping. In this line I Would inelpde a gas rang**, aluminum cooking ut< usils, kitchen cabinet, fine table linen table silver, cut glass articles for the table or a nice coffee percolator. Add to any one or more of the fore going articles some Elk hosiery, gloves or toilet articles a nU • box of candy with a love letter in it. and I'll wager that your wife will think that you are the best Santa Claus that ever lived A. C. Atlanta, Ga. BANK ACCOUNT FOR WIFE. Miss Mary Lea Davis: I should be happy to present my wife with a bank account to which ther*» were no “strings tied." I have often thought how unpleasant it must be for a wife to have to ask her husband for a dollar everv time she wanted to gratify any lit tle personal <lesires. I think equal rights (as far as money matters are concerned) should exist in all per fect homes—and to this end I am working. C D. Dublin, Ga HER SELECTIONS. Miss Mary Lea Davis: Wives, the majority, are depend ent on Ihelr husbands to settle the bills. When selecting mj husband’s present I keep in mind this fat . and try to get something he could not select the same as I i give hem stitched handkerchiefs. pajamas, bathrobes, collars anti laundry bags. I make these. MRS. K. G. A. Atlanta. Ga. QUILT AND RUG. Miss Mary Lea Davis I think a nice present would be a quilt made of old woolen cloths past wearing, cut them into squares ami stitch them down to an old blanket, and take the waste pieces and make him a rug to put beside his bed. And a pound cake and layer cake made of parched peanuts ground and stirred in the baiter or spread between the layers with icing McDonough Ga. MRS. E K. G HIS BEST GIFT TO HER. Miss Mary Lea Davis: l think it depends entirely upon the taste of the party concerned and upon the amount you have to spend No gift from a husband to his wife should be a financial sacrifice One Christmas when “things were all wrong" with us financially I bought ray wife a few' flowers and a box of candy and gave it to her like I used to when jve were sweethearts, for you know "the gift without the giver is bare.” and she remembers it yet as "the best present I ever gave her.’ \V. .J. BRADLEY. Valdosta. Ga homemade hassock. Hiss Mat \ Lea Da s The most appreciated and least expensive gift I ever gave my hus band was a homemadt hassock. I got a box 10 by 12 by 16 inches, one roll cotton, box brass-headed tack* and set castors and used some old plush I had: cretonne will do. After it was covered, using cotton for a padding for the top. I put on the castors. By using two hinges the top may be made as a lid, and stool used to keep bedroom slippers, shoes, etc., in MRS. G. E. Way cross, Ga. GOLD HAIRPINS. Miss Mary Lea Davis: My Christmas gift to my wife will consist of two dozen gold hairpins, two gold hatpins, studded with one diamond and twelve pearls each, a gold comb and a hair brush, the CASTOR IA For Infants and Childrsn. Tha Kind You Have Aiways Bought back of which is a mirror wreathed in gold, studded with 36 small dia monds. After mature reflection T concluded this gift was the most suitable, most appreciated and most useful to any woman and it com pletely absorbs the nature of a Ehristmas gift restricted to femi ninity. My gift is based upon the fact that woman’s hair is her “glory." Waresboro, Ga. R. B., Jr. A USEFUL GIFT. Mis. Mary Lea Davis: 1 have not decided just what I will give my husband for a Christ mas present. I can’t give him any thing expensive, although I would like to. I shall give him something useful Whatever gift wo are abb' to give let us give ourselves with it. "For the gift without the giver is bare. MRS. M. E. White Stone, Ga. A WARM OVERCOAT. Miss Mary Lea Davis: As the husband is exposed to all the bad weather in going to and re turning from his daily work to provide for the family, I think the most useful present will be a good overcoat, raincoat, pair of rubbers and a good pair of gloves. Atlanta. Ga. MRS. L. E A COZY HOME. Miss Mary Lea Davis: 1 think the best Christmas gift for hubby is The Georgian, a nice cozy horn*' and a wife to meet him w tiha smile and a kiss after a hard day's work for every day in 1314. Gainesville. Ga. MRS. I>. T. MAKE HER HAPPY. Miss Mary Lea Davis: The best suggestion I can give is to make your wife the happiest slip has ever been during married life Make her feel as if you were just beginning to fall in love with her and if you know of any thing she would dearly low ... have! be ii sll ver or gold, be it » ver so smalt, just 84) it appeals t<» her. that will make her have a happy Yuletlde I H. K LOVE FROM A WIFE. Miss Mary Lea Davis 1 shall give my husband the same old gift, but always new to him. It is the candle of love, brightly burning on the altar «»f a wife’s de votion and tl»** dove <T peace to al ways hover around him Then some little present that will I.,* useful and that he will enjoy. MRS l F. It. Stllesboro. Ga. PAJAMAS. Miss Mary Lea Davis The Christinas box which ! '.hall place at my husband's breakfast plate the morning of December -•» will contain two pairs «n pretty out mg pajamas that l have made fbr him with great care. The collars. . oft , • o pockets are embellished with my handiwork and the pockets are marked with his initial. I will inclose a «ar<l of Christmas greet mg. telling of the hive served in with the stitches. Surely then* Is both use anil uentlment in this gift. Opelika. Ala. MRS. A. D S. FOR THE WOMAN Mis- Mary Lea Davis: I think any man can please his wife Christmas by giving her some thing that beautifies her person; INDOOR WORK REDUCES STRENGTH <y because confining duties, lack of fresh air ana sunshine gradually weaken even a strong constitution, and the enfeebled system readily accepts sickness and disease. Saott ’* Emulsion checks such decline. Its pure cod liver oil is nature's grandest medicinal food while tts hypophosphites act as a buiiding tonic. It refreshes the body, puts vigor in the blood, strengthens the lungs, upbuilds the nerves and invigorates the whole system If you work indoor*. Scol *s Emulsion after moats will prevent much sickness and toss of time, and often thwarts tuberculosis—it builds up and holds your strength. Shun Alcoholic Substitutes and INSIST on SCOTT’S. 2i AT ANY DRUG STORE. nice clothes, toilet articles, or that which will beautify her home, nice furniture, silverware, china, pic- tun- .lust let him remember her taste in such matters. W. R. Atlanta, Ga. A HAPPY HOME. Alias Mary Lea Davis: I am going to give my husband .is happy i borne as I can make for him and have his meals on time, and a kind and loving heart. MRS. B. C. Mountain City, Ga. LESS MEAT IE KIDNEYS HURT M Meat Forms Uric Acid, Which Clogs Kidneys; Causes Rheu matism and Irritates Bladder, If you must have your meat every day. eat it. hut flush your kidneys with salts occasionally, says a noted authority who te’ls us that meat forms uric acid which almost paralyzes the kidneys in i their efforts to expel it from the blood. I They become sluggish and weaken, then you suffer with a dull misery in , tho kidney region, sharp pains in the hack or sick headache, dizziness, your i stomai-h sours, tongue is coated and when the weather is hail you have rheu matic twinges. The urine gets cloudy, full of sediment, the channels often get sore and irritate4i. obliging you to seek relief two or three times during the night. To neutralize these irritating acids, to cleans, the kidneys and Hush qff the body’s urinous waste get four ounces of •fad Salts from any pharmacy here; take n tablespnonfu! In a glass of water be fore breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with llthia. and has been used for generations to flush ami stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to neutralize the acids in urine, so it mi longer irritates, thus ending bladder weakness. Ja.fc Salts is inexpensive. an not in jure, and makes a delightful efferves cent lithia-water drink. - Advt. K££H BUY YOUR Bears the Signature of See Edeson, Lackaye, Figman, Rose Coghlan, Lolita Robertson, Lydia Dickson at the All-Star Matinee at the Atlanta Friday, j December 12, 2:30 p. m. Get; your tickets now. A Diamond is undoubtedly “the gift, supreme.” She would keep it forever. It would always he with her and constantly increase in value. Our prices on diamonds are comparatively 1 o w—v cry low. Look them over. A. M. Balding 17 Edgewood Ave. Thais what / want - ! And you can't fool him, either. He knows the tin and the taste of jr Be a Bel! Telephone Operator The work is agreeable. The sur roundings arc pleasant. You are paid a salary while learning. 1 he oppor tunities for rapid advancement are excellent. Increased salary is assured if you prove efficient. There are several vacancies in our training school for young women who have a common school education and can furnish satisfactory references. Apply in person at the Bell Telephone Exchange The grocer knows it, too. That’s why he has it in stock. It doesn’t stay on the shelf long. Too many calls for it. Custom has made it standard. Nature’s sugar in its most delicious form and flavor—the juice from sugar cane. It is at YOUR grocer’s. Packed in tins by the ALABAMA-GEORGIA SYRUP CO LADIES’ SUITS AND COATS AT From now until Xmas we are offering every Ladies’ suit in the house priced as high as $35.00 for$i7 5o. Think of it, suits in every shade and material, in all the latest designs, are being offered to you at such ridiculously low prices, and you only need $5.00 to get one, then the balance at $1.00 per week! These prices won’t be found at any cash store. LADIES’ COATS Reduced nearly one-half; Coats up to $22.50 now being offered for $14.93. A great many others as cheap as$io and $12.50, A fine chance to dress up and everyone should take advantage of these liberal offers. Men’s Overcoats c $15.09 Fur $15.00 we are offering you in Overcoats what you usually have been paying $20.00 for, and many num bers to select from. Why go cold when such opportuni ties are held out t<> vmi ! Metis Sails H fi II * I All Suits up to $25.00 now being offered for $19.05. for theOhristmas buyer. These conn* in all shades and weaves. Don’t fail to get •lie-—then are going. Others are taking advantage of these prices. Why not you f MONTGOMERY, AI.A .dim ua 28 WEST iCft-cLL s f - -L- /^REDiT S LOTH IN G ^ttlWPAPJY S14.95 f SI 9.95 hi a* .&»«*(***** iii itiin-t—nofritr^iiir'av-f-i •