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THE ATLANTA UKORGIAX AND NEWS.
STOPS PISTOL TOTERS:
Atlantans in Tampa
Enroute to Havana
TAMPA,-' Dec. 1.6. -On their way to
Havana to see the sights, a party of At-
I lantans passed through Tampa, taking
the piivetia for the Cuban city.
The party includes J. B. Beck and
I wife. X. B. Duncan and wife. Miss Sims.
Miss A. Torres. Miss Nolan. Mrs. Nolan.
Mrs. M. L. Pitts, Miss Burson, Miss
Clara Perry, \Y. c. Harter. Mrs. W. A.
Cherry. Price Charter. VV. «J. Elliott.
Miss Louise Wall, Miss L. Hinson and
| John T. North.
HEART WIFE’TELLS OF
HER WEIRD ROMANCE
Records of the Police Court Friday
morning showed that Chief of Poll e
Beavers* edict against Christmas
trim-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 Recorder's
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.
*T believe this cowardly and dan
gerous habit of ‘gun toting’ is effec
tually controlled in Atlanta,” the
Chief said Friday morning. “This
thing isn’t perfect yet, but we are
going to keept at it, and never let up.
The Recorder is backing our work in
fine shape, and the public sentiment
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 w r as 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
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
of 1913 was a home Christmas. There
wasn’t so much of the highways and
byways element. The clubs were well
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 tjie 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 much 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 and
most prosperous the State ever had
enjoyed.
“Financially and commercially.
Georgia is strictly on the top of the
heap.” tiie 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 the crowds on Atlanta's
streets Christmas Eve.” said the
Mayor. "Everybody seemed happy
and well-disposed.”
And as to the size of the Christmas
—well, the postoffice 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 firework?? was much
modified from that »f 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 ii^ 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.
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 « 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.
Miss Adelaide
Branch, the
"heart wife’’ of
a former dis
trict attorney at
Monticello,
N. Y., who lived
a hermit in a
secret room in
his offices for
years.
HOW associated charities head
LOOKS ON EMPTY STOCKING FUND
Here is wliat Joseph Logan, Secretary of the Associated Charities, and an expert in the
pr oper administration of charitable funds, thinks of The Georgian's Empty Stocking Fund :
" Again The Georgian Empty Stocking Fund has gladdened the hearts of hundreds of chil
dren. It has shod their little feet, and warmed their precious little bodies. The Associated Char
ities knows (i73 of them by name and age and home. You may know others. But The Georgian,
does not publish these facts, because that would humiliate, and add a sting to the pleasure of bothi
mother and child.
‘ 1 In this, aud in other respects, the Empty Stocking Fund deserves high praise, ll is dis
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.”
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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
I ving on farms near where they were
born, are celebrating the ninety-fifth
I anniversary of their birthday.
I 1 It is a quiet 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 long
lives.
Fewer Saloons for
Mobile Next Year
MOBILE, Dec. 26.—Mobile will prob
ably have less than *»2 retail liquor
, stores in 1914. according to members of
j the city excise commission, who state
that applications so far received indieat-
1 ed that a number of those holding li-
• censes this year 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 Christmas
Day.
MONTICELLO, N. Y., Dec. 26.
Adelaide M. Branch, “heart mate” of
Attorney Melvin IL Couch, whose
tragic death revealed the 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 she had
found a refuge and go to some little
town where she can fight her grief.
Despite the predicament in which
she finds herself, Miss Branch assert
ed cahnly to-day that she had no re
gret for her past life.
“In spite of all that has happened,
in spite of all I have suffered, in
spite of all this scandal and noto
riety, I have not one regret for what
I have done,” she said. *'I 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 site had
to move to conceal her presence in
the little room. Every time that the
lawyer received a client she had to
take special care to hide the fact that
she was near by.
“I wore rubber-heeled shoes, so that
1 could move about without making
any noise.” she said, “but mostly I
sat 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 gnd went, politicians and, occa
sionally. 1 heard the voice of a w om
an— Mr. Couch’s wife.
"I made his life happy, but 1 suf
fered. Oh, yes, I suffered. 1 paid
the 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. J 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 w ill tell you a strange thing.
Awake, my mind was filled with hard
and bitter thoughts of her, but in m>*
sleep 1 loved her better than any one
woman on earth. I dreamed of her
constantly, and always in my dreams
I 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 leally
hate each other at all in our hearts,
and that as soon rh we strip off this
little fleshly veil we are all love for
every human soul?"
PEACE IN SHE
WILL FOLLOW
DEATH OF 11
CALUMET, MICH., Dec. 26.—While
four separate investigations of Calu
met’s Christinas 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 the dead,
peacemakers were at w'ork in a su
preme effort to bring an end to the
copper min# 1 strike in this region.
Over the bodies of the little ones th
leaders of the peace movement hoped
to see an end to the labor strife whi h
has torn the Calumet copper district
for several months.
United in grief over the snuffing
out of so many young lives, the war
ring 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
w'hether 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 Calumet 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 who have been opposing the
strikers. The committees represent
ing the operators went from house to
bouse 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 diplo
matically 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 be arranged for later to
day. it is expected that the spirit of
light will have been interred with the
bodies of the 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
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. H. C.
Brlnckman, the owner, stated to-day
that be was considering the advisa
bility of erecting a fine office building !
costing $150,000 with stores in the
lower floors.
He will start at once clearing the 1
debris from Hie old *
Xmas Seal Sale in
Savannah Doubled
SAVANNAH, Dec. 26—The sale of
Red Cross Christmas seals in Savannah
this year doubled that of any previous
year with a sale of 75.000.
Added to the sum thus raised pretty
girls crowded the shopping district of*
faring the flne.*»| candies for sale. Fif*
ty per »ent of the money thus raised aU
so was appropriated to the cause.
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.
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.
Bui choose your dentifrice
carefully—it is important. You
want one that is safe, without
harmful grit-one that is' anti*
septic. to check decay-germs
—one that is delicious, ao that
its use is a pleasure instead of
a task.
Every member of your family
should have a i«jbe of
COC.GflTE’S
RIBBON —»«
Dental cream
Consult your dentist about it —
ask him to give you a copy of
the “Oral Hygiene” booklet,
published by Colgate Co.
“Correct Dress for Men"
Essig Bros. Co.—December Reduction Sale >
331-3 Per Cent Discount—For Cash
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On Our Entire Stock of Men’s and Young Men’s
SUITS and OVERCOATS
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$5.00 Trousers $3.75
$6.00
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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
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This is Positively a
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“Correct Dress for Men ”
Cash Sale
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