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t inn Iv i ui\rs liv uriUivuiAiN AiNJJ jN h\\ £>. STOPS PISTOL TOTERS: Records of the Police Court Friday morning showed that Chief of Police Heavers’ edict against Christmas gun-play had. effectively curbed the pistol toters. The “morning after” didn’t look like it has in former years. There were about 150 cases in all, it is true, but that wouldn’t make an unusually large grist for a Monday morning; in fact, Monday morning entertainments in the Recorders Court frequently snow a heavier at tendance than that. The arrests for “pistol toting” numbered only fifteen—a distinct rec ord for the day after Christmas, and a tribute to the edicts of Chief Beav ers against the practice, and to ihe severe manner in which Judge Broyles has been dealing with offend ers. “I believe this cowardly and dan gerous habit of ‘gun toting’ is effec tually controlled in Atlanta,’’ the Thief said Friday morning. “This thing isn’t perfect yet, but we are going to keept at it, and never let up. Tile Recorder is backing our work in fine shape, and the public sentime* t also is responding to our efforts. I am deeply gratified.” There were a good many cases in court commonly registered as “plain drunks,” but even that list was far shorter than in previous years on the day after Christmas. Of the hospital calls, not one call reached Grady Hospital for an in jured boy or girl who had been play ing with fireworks. Also, there were no calls for any injured persons ex cept a few negroes who had been engaged in fights. The single fatality was that of a negro, Charlie Page, who lived in the rear of No. 420 West. North avenue. He was shot and killed by a negro, who escaped. Being a gray day, much doused with rain in the early hours, the Christmas •f 1913 was a home Christmas. There wasn’t so much of the highways and byways element. The clubs were weil attended, and there were well-filled churches at the special services. A Real “Home” Christmas. But it was essentially a “home Christmas*,” which is by all odds the happiest and most satisfactory kind of a Christmas. Chief Beavers noted this fact in the quiet and peaceful atmosphere of the streets. “I never saw a Christmas celebra tion attended by less noise and roughness,” said the Chief the morn ing after. “As for arrests, I believe the record falls far below anything in the last ten years. Everybody seemed to be in a good humor, with out being too njuch so. which is some times a cause of trouble.” Governor Slaton, speaking for the State of Georgia, said he believed this Christmas was the happiest anti most prosperous the State ever had enjoyed. “Financially and commercially, Georgia is strictly on the top of the heap,”# the Governor said, “and the relation of that condition to the fam ily feeling is marked All records show that it is in times of financial and commercial depression that most of the domestic troubles occur. Con versely, when times are good, people are good, too. It was. indeed, a hap py Christmas." Mayor Highly Pleased. Mayor Woodward had much the same opinion to offer concerning the quiet and pleasant celebration in the city. “I don’t remember ever having seen a finer and prettier celebration than that by tlie crowds on Atlanta's streets Christmas Eve." said the Mayor. “Everybody seemed happy and well-disposed.” And as to the si/.e of the Christmas — well, the postofflee and the express companies supply the measure for that. It is hardly a matter reducible to cold figures, but an idea may be gained of the extent of Atlanta's gifts by noting that the postoffice deliv ered more than a million letters and Christmas cards, and 225,000 parcel post Christmas packages in the five days preceding Christmas. Divided among Atlanta's population, that would give at least one package apiece and five letters and cards to every man, woman and child in the city. Which doesn't include the express deliveries. The Southern Express Company kept 75 wagons and five big motor trucks busy all the time, de livering Christmas parcels. Record Mail Delivery Work. It is perhaps a record that at noon on Christmas Day. in* spite of the enormous flood of gifts and letters, not one remained undelivered, either by the postoffice or the express compa nies*. The Christmas service was won derful. The fact that it was a “home Christmas,” and that the out-of-door celebration by fireworks was much modified from that jf former years, probably accounted for the scarcity of fire alarms and the almost blank hospital records of Christmas in juries. Grady Hospital, in fact, went through the day without a single emergency call—a record in itself. At the hotels the guests were made to feel that they were as much at home as possible, at that distance from their own firesides. One big ho tel had a gorgeous Christmas tree in the dining room. There were special dinners, of course, and the atmos phere was one of Christmas *»-ayety and good cheer. Atlantans in Tampa Enroute to Havana TAMPA, Dec. 26.—On their way to 1 Havana to see the sights, a party of At lantans passed through Tampa, taking the Olivette for the Cuban city. The party includes J. B. Beck and wife, N. B. Duncan and wife. Miss Sims, Miss A. Torres, Miss Nolan. Mrs. Nolan, Mrs. M. L. Pitts. Miss Bursori, Miss Clara Perry. \V. (\ Harter, Mrs. \\ A. Cherry, Price Charter, W. Elliott. Miss Louise Wall, Miss L. Hinson and John T. North. Father Shoots Son Who Defends Mother JACKSONVILLE, Dec. 26.—Wil liam Paige, at his home on Enterprise street, declared that he was going to kill his wife, and cut loose with a re peating rifle. His son, Loton Paige, grabbed another gun to defend his mother. Paige shot the boy down. He is at St. Luke’s Hospital in a dangerous condition 'HEART WIFE’TELLS OF HER WEIRD ROMANCE HOW ASSOCIATED CHARITIES HEAD LOOKS ON EMPTY STOCKING FUND IltMv is what .Joseph C. Logan, Secretary of the Associated Charities, and an expert in the *! proper administration of charitable funds, thinks of The Georgian's Empty Stocking Fund: “ Again The Georgian Empty Stocking Fund lias gladdened the hearts of hundreds of chiT-J dren. It has shod their little feet, and warmed their precious little bodies. The Associated Char-5'; ities knows 673 of them by name and age and home.' You may know others. But The Georgian,;; does not publish these facts, because that wonld humiliate, and add a sting to the pleasure of both\s mother and child. "In this, and in Other respects, the Empty Stocking Fund deserves nigh praise. It is dis- J tinctive in taking unusual trouble to suit gifts to the sex and age of the children; and in preserv ing the spirit of Santa Claus, by delivering the gifts through a parent of guardian. “It treats these children with as much consideration as if some day any one of them might become editor of the paper, Governor of the State, or other great servant of mankind; and why ’ not—since a Babe that was born in a manger, became the Light of the World.” PUCE IN SHE Twins Born on Xmas, 95 Years Ago, Alive NEW YORK, Dec. 26. - William and Samuel Muncy, twins, born Christmas Day, 1818. near Babylon, L. I., and still ] ving on farms near where they were born, are celebrating the ninety-fifth anniversary of their birthday. It is a quiei one. Neither of the men ever has used tobacco or alcohol, and to this, and the open air lives they have led, they attribute their lung lives. Fewer Saloons for Mobile Next Year MOBILE. Dec. 26.—Mobile will prob ably have less than f>2 retail liquor stores in 1914. according to members of the city excise commission, wIlo state that applications so far received indicat ed that a number of those holding li censes this yeay will not seek new li censes. CONVICTS GET TURKEY DINNER. GIBSON. Dec. 26.—County Com missioner H. G. Sammons and Ward en J. H. Thigpen gave the Glascock County convicts a holiday and served them a turkey dinner on Christinas Day. MONTICELLO, X Y„ Dec. 20. Adelaide M. Branch, “heart mate” of Attorney Melvin H. Couch, whose tragic* death revealed tlie fact that she lived as the slave of the lawyer for years In a box-like den off his office, will hide herself in the West. She soon will leave the jail where site had found a refuge ami go to some little town where she can fight her grief. Despite the predicament in which she finds herself, Miss Branch assert ed calmly to-day that she had no re gret for her past life. "In spite of all that has happened, in spite of all 1 have suffered, in spite of all this scandal and noto riety. 1 have not one regret for what I have done," she said. “1 would do it all over again to-morrow if 1 could. "I have been rich in love. I have had full measure, pressed down and running over, of a perfect love and’ companionship, and it was worth the price I paid." Miss Branch to-day told for the first tim** with what secrecy she had to move to conceal her presence in the little room. Every time that tlie lawyer received a client she had to take special care to Hide tlie fact that she was near by. "1 wore rubber-heeled shoes, so that I could move about without making any noise.” she said, "but mostly 1 sal very still, listening to the snatches of conversation that floated over the wall, which did not extend to the ceiling, learning to know by their Voices people that 1 never saw. Clients came and went, politicians and* occa sionally, T heard the voice of a wom an—Mr. Couch’s wife. "I made his life happy, but I suf fered. Oh, yes, I suffered. 1 paid tiie price. I suffered when I thought of his wife. .1 did not want to hurt her, but I could not help it. I don’t believe two women can love the same man and not have their hearts torn with miserable jealousy and envy of each other. 1 knew Mr. Couch loved me as few women have ever been loved in the world—and yet I was Jealous of the woman who bore his name and was his wife in the eyes of society. "And 1 will tell you a strange thing. Awake, my mind was filled with hard and bitter thoughts of her, but in my sleep I loved her better than any one woman on earth. I dreamed of her constantly, and always in my dreams 1 was going to see her, and she was meeting me with outstretched arms of welcome and with affection in her eyes and smiles. "What does that mean? What can it mean except that we do not really hate each other at all in our hearts, and that as soon as we strip off this little fleshly veil we are all love for every human soul?” DEITD BF 11 CALUMET, MICH., Dec. 26.—While four separate investigations of Calu met's Christmas tree disaster, in which 72 persons, most of them chil dren, were killed, were being made to-day and a dispute was being waged as to whom should bury tiie dead, peacemakers were at work in a su preme effort to bring an end to tiie copper mine strike in this region. Over the bodies of the little ones the leaders of the peace movement hoped to see an end to the labor strife which has torn the Calumet copper district for several months. United in grief over tiie snuffing out of so many young lives, the war- ling factions mine operators, guards and strikebreakers, and the stricken union miners and their friends gave no thought to the big labor battle that indirectly is blamed for the most grewsome horror In the history of Calumet. Hostility Less Marked. There was still a dispute over whether the offer of the Citizens’ Al liance. an organization that has been considered hostile to the strikers, to defray all the burial expenses should be accepted. Officials of the Western Federation of Miners declared that the offer should be spurned. "We will care for our own dead.” was the defiant response to the al liance. The feeling of hostility was not so marked to-day when it was seen that the citizens of Caluivuft and other cities in the mine district were in earnest in their efforts to raise funds for the stricken families. Almost unlimited amounts of money were pledged by mine owners and mer chants w'ho have been opposing Hie strikers. The committees represent ing the operators went from house to house to-day comforting the surviv ing members of families whose dear ones were taken from them in the unnecessary panic. Following these committees went others, and suggestions that peace be declared between the forces repre senting capital and labor were d plo- m&tlcally expressed. Peace Suggestions Please. It was suggested that the man who thrust his head into the door of Italian Hall while the Christmas tree celebration was at its height and shouted fire was inspired to the malicious deed by some things that the miners have done to promote their strike. The peace suggestions were apparently well received. The miners seemed not to blame the mine operators, but they felt that the dis aster would not have occurred had there not been a strike and it appear ed that they felt more remorse than resentment. After the funeral of all the victims, which will lie arranged for later to day. it is expected that the spirit of tight will have been interred with the bodies of tiie innocent little children and wives of the strikers and that peace will prevail where, had not the disaster occurred. a labor war have continued indefinitely. $150,000 Skyscraper Will Rise From Fire girls crowded the shopping district of fering tiie finest candies for sale. Fif ty per cent of the money thus raised, al so was appropriated to the cause. — SAVANNAH, Dec. 26.—Construction will start before January 15 on a new building to take the place of the one destroyed by fire last week. II. C. Brinckrnan. the owner, stated to-day that he was considering the advisa bility of erecting a fine office building costing $150,000 with stores in the lower floors. Me will start at once clearing the debris from the old site. Xmas Seal Sale in Savannah Doubled SAVANNAH, Dec. 26. The sale of I Red Cross Christmas seals in Savannah j this year doubled that of any previous year with a sale of 75,000. Added to the sum thus raised pretty T HE lesson of “Good Teeth—Good Health” is being taught in thousands of schools all over the country—it is to be hoped that children of your family have re ceived instructions in the care of the teeth. 4 In many homes parents are teaching their children that care of the teeth means relief from pain, besides better health for work and play. Help your children form this habit by setting them an ex ample. twice-a-day. But choose your dentifric* carefully—it is important. You want one that is *af•, without harmful grit—one that is anti* 90ptic, to check decay-germs —one that is deliciout. so that its use is a pleasure instead of a task. Every member of your fareliy should have a tube of COCCATE’S RIBBON — Dental cream Consul* your dentist about it — ask him to give you a copy of the “Oral Hygiene” booklet, published by Colgate C& Co. Essig Bros. Co. “Correct Dress for Men December Reduction Sale 331-3 Per Cent Discount—For Cash On Our Entire Stock of Men’s and Young Men’s SUITS and OVERCOATS All Suits and Overcoats That Were $15.00 Reduced to $10.00 18.50 20.00 22.50 25.00 u t i (( u ii (< 12.35 13.35 15.00 16.65 $27,50 Reduced to $18.35 30.00 32.50 35-00 40.00 t. t ( t ( a a 41 u a 20.00 21.65 23.35 26.65 25 per cent Discount ===ON=== All Odd Trousers $5.00 Trousers $3.75 $6.00 $7.00 $8.00 $9.00 u a u $4.50 $5.25 $6.00 $6.75 This sale includes all Black, Blue and Fancy Suits, all Light, Medium and Heavy Weight Overcoats, in the newest patterns and latest models. Our clothing is manufactured for us by America’s best tailors and we use only the best foreign and domestic woolens in all our Suits and Overcoats. This is Positively a ESSIG BROS. CO. This is Positively a Cash Sale “Correct Dress for Men” Cash Sale 26 Whitehall Street