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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, FRIDAY. DCTKMDER 7. JIM. 11 Dining Room ■fjj; i.’. C— A’.'/vinv Some people would rather have their dining room the, prettiest room in the house. It is the room your guests always see. It is the room used together every day. It is the room you will use when entertaining- These are all good reasons for having it inviting. A pretty Dining Table will make your Dining Room more attractive than any other piece of furniture. We have them in all designs, woods and finishes. Prices to suit the most economical as well as those desiring the most expensive. From $12.50 to $250. y y*fn\ This Table in Solid , Mahogany, Cm a DINING TABLES IN SOLID AND VENEERED MAHOGANY AND OAK IN ANY FINISH. This Table in Early English RHODES-HA VERTY 63-65 t Peachtree NUNN ALLY CANDY STORE OPENS A HANDSOME NEW BRANCH IN BIRMINGHAM One of the newest ami handsomest additions to the business houses of Birmingham, Ala., is the beautiful Nunnally candy store, which was open ed in that city on December 4. It is •n<> of the handsomest stores of the kind in the entire Houth. The finishings are all of mahogany, marble, mosaic and heavy plate glass mirror*. The woodwork, including the tables and chairs. Is all of tho same rich wood—the beautiful solid muhog- uny—and the tables have marble tops. The walls are almost entirely covered with Immense mirrors, reaching nearly :» the t elling, and being of an artistic uniliiuc* design. The rear of the store Is a great ma ( hogjny and plate glass ice box, where Hu Mowers, shipped from tho Nun < APT. FRED FORD TO MyAD REVIVAL OF SALVATION ARMY In '.minion with other people, the Hiivatimi Army Is busy this burnt h vith its Christinas preparations, but n*; low busy to work In a week of re- 'h ii meetings. Major and Mrs. Ben himn, the dlvls- l"n;d officers of tho Houth, will inau- K n.it< the campaign for souls, «begln- n, tig with a musical service on Sun- 'f'J night, in which tho divisional song- brigade will take part. The meet- toff* hom Tuesday night to tho fol- jv'ving Monday will be led by Captain I’od Ford, the converted gambler and 'all-round had man." Captain Ford i ts hml a wonderful experience, having iH-tn one of the worst characters In M"- . ity *,f Cleveland. Ohio, where ho >»• t ilu* Salvation Army, who made him what he is. ‘ ■ nally green houses in Atlanta every evening, are kept for sale. The soda fountain is a very hand some and extensive affair, being of the veiV newest design and pattern. It has a capacity of over 5,000 drinks daily. About 150 employees will be required to operate this big and beautiful plant. The chocolates sold in the Birming ham store will be made at the big Xunnally plant on Ivy street. In At lanta,. but the other candies will be made-In a new’ plant at Birmingham. The people of the Alabama city have already shown their appreciation of this most attractive business venture and Nunnally’s store promises to take a place as one of the leading features of Birmingham's business district. Nunnally’s candles, too, are rapidly becoming very popular, indeed, in every* city and town from one end of the Houth to the other. DROWNS HERSELF TO JOIN FATHER New York, Dec. 7.—Firm In the' be- fief that her own death would reunite her and her father. Miss Kthel Me- Roberts, a Brooklyn girl, leaped Into the sea at Coney Islund today und was drowned. Hhe was the daughter of a wealthy family und lived with her mother nn«l brother, William F. McRobcrts, a real estate broker. From the moment her father died she has been Inconsolable. it i* announced at Odessa, Russia, that orders have been placed with the NlkolnieiT ship building yards for four up-to-date torpedo cruisers to be at tache*! to the Black Hea fleet. WANT HIGHER PAY; OTHERS OPPOSE II The four hours of wandering in a labj« rlnthlal innate, discussing, fussing slid "cussing" Thursday over the report to raise the salaries of a number of city officials will be almost ns nothing beside what Is scheduled to happen at the next session of council. Tho salary committee hns Introduced an ordinance, which will request the legislature to amend tho c|ty charter so as to allow city councilman and aldermen to he paid $t*0 per year, Instead of $300, as hereto* for**. This ordinance has been drawn up and tiled hi the clerk’s office. It Is provided therein that the senator from this district and the representatives from this county shall be acquainted with the adoption of the orditmuee, and that they shall l»e urged to do their utmost to have the legislature so change tho city charter. There are n number of councilman who are unalterably opposed to the proposed raise. Then* are others who as earnestly r tho "raise. When the matter comes there Is sure to lie a heated discus sion. The raise will amount In total to $7,200 |»6r year. There nr** those who contend that tho statement of Dr. Broughton In regard to the small pay of coiiiiciliiieu. In which, it Is .Hinted, then* was nit Intimation of graft, has l*-d to the pr**pos**U raise. Others ve hemently deny this. # The action of council on this mntter will be watched with great interest. KILLED RIM, OF COURSE I or Emotional Insanity Is the Grounds on Which Case Is Fought. GUIDES’ LOVE,OF DRINK KEPT HER FROM GOAL New York, Dec. 7.—Because her Pe ruvian porters drank up her alcohol that she needed for cooking purposes, and because they were cowardly and lazy, Miss Annie Peck, who is said by many to bo America’s greatest moun tain climber, failed In her attempt to reach the summit, of Mount Husac Huaacaran, in Peru. 23,000 feet above the level of the sea. Miss Peck, disappointed, yet chip per and good natured throughout, ar rived here on the steamship Trent, hav ing come from Peru by way of Colon, Miss Peck*made tattempts to climb this mountain, but was only successful In a climb of 18 000 feet. THROUGH SLEEPING CAR LINE TO MEMPHIS. Kvery day from Union Depot. Only u night’s ride. Dining car service. Leaves Atlanta 1:45 p. m. SEABOARD AIR LINE. Haclehurst, Miss., Nov. 7.—Emotional in sanity Is the plea of Mrs. Angle Birdsong, the child-wife of l)r. J. F. Birdsong, ntul the niece of Baited States Kenntor Me- Laurln, In her defense of the charge of hav ing murdered her old family physician, Dr. Thomas F. Butler. Soon after the tak ing of testimony had beguu counsel for the defense went straight to the question whether the so-called "unwritten law" Jus- tiflod Mrs. Birdsong's set, and they secured a strong position In their client's favor, through tin* court's ruling. This ruling wus asked by the defense In cross-examination, whether Dr. Butler had ever told tho wit ness, U. N. Miller, of his relations with Mrs. Birdsong. The Jury was sent from tho rooiu und a sharp debate was engaged In upon the admissibility of this evidence. Judge Miller declared that he would re quire of the defense evidence to prove that each of the statements admitted was re peated to the defendant. Tho remarks about Mrs. Birdaoug were based on notes alleged to have been written by her to Dr. Butler. Evidence taken was to establish the fact of the shooting. Mrs. Birdsong appeared calm and self- 'assessed at the session. Her husband, who ins been Indicted as an accessory, but who i not on trial, manifested keen concern lu he evidence submitted. Mrs. Birdsong, talking with friends In tho court holts**, said: "Of course I killed him. I shot him as I would a snake. He ruined my reputation and there was nothing A ‘YANKEE’ WOMAN’S VIEWS ON NEGRO A'S RACE HAVE CHANGED SINCE TRIP SOUTH else to for.” / i i The Georgian, one of the South’s best afternoon dai lies, is given free for one month with purchases of $5 EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT, SOUVENIR NIGHT AT THE NEW KIMBALL PALM GAR DEN. BALLARD BIFOCAL. A revelation to • WANT SOME CLOTHING? - If you can afford to pay $1.00 a week you can afford to wear high grade clothing—come here and get it—we trust you—64 Stores—Cash Store OVERCOATS. $< lo SI MEN’S SUITS. BOYS' OVERCOATS. S4 to SI2 BOYS* SUITS. SS to SIO WOMEN’S COATS. SlO-to S30 WOMEN’S SUITS. SIO to S32 EUR SCARFS. S2 to S20 TRIMMED HATS. S2.30 to SIO MENTER£ gOM r KosEN^ce. Over 79 Whitehall Street Store Open Evininflt Until After ra Chrietmox. , f lla.H wearers, does rs of glasses, both V,* —— V.. W j rcad , ng nn<1 walking vision In one Both stores. . I frame, and looks like one glass. It has ‘ proven the most successful of all the advert tsed invisible bifocals. They are being Hold by all the leading: house* in America and abroad. • Our oculist's prescription department Is the most perfect system ever inaugurated In thb^ country. Not how cheap, but haw* well we can serve you. Ask the oculist about us. WRlter Ballard Optical Company, 61 Peachtree street. DIVORCE MILL GRINDS OUT REIVY GRIST Several divorces were grunted in the! superior court by Judge Pendleton on j Friday morning. Only one was a sec ond verdict. Maude Jones Farris got b second j verdict of total divorce from Rosie A. Farris. Plaintiff was given liberty to) man y again, but this was denied Ue- I fendaut. Desertion was the charge. j other divorce* grunted were; EmiQaj| L. Furr from Joel Fust, for habitual menu lias l***»*n prepared nmi an lnter<**tT»i drunkeuness and rruelty of defendant program i tt Finney Huhlf from Frank U. Hahll. for I ‘‘batap .*• habitual drunkenness and cruelty «*f defendant; K. H. ('hovlti from Mrs. It. B. *’h«»vin. This divorce was granted for »ruelty. Petitioner said he was an *.;«! man and unable to defend himself. V.'instun t’hurchill has issued a state- and that his wife after It-aping insult inent at t’oncord, N. II.. in which he •ip* n him. beat him with n stick. enu<- says he Is not n candidate for United »m; many bruise’s, and then left him. States senator. SOUTH CAROLINANS TD SMOKE AND CHAT Tl].. Konlli t tilnlin.l tforlety will givt’ a .ntoki-r ,t tli,- Klmtwlt hoass on !>,'‘rnj U*r !0 flt 7 o'clock. nml It I, expected tllflt Urge crowd Mill attend. An elegant Miss Florence Filter, who playn Kuth In "The One Wonjan” Company, ha* gained some new Menu of tho negro through her study of Thomas Dijon's stories and plays, und more especially since tier coming to tho South. Miss Fisher has Interested herself In a close study of the race question and In discussing her views of tho negro ss a class, site says: "The great 'problems' of any nation must ho determined, not by u specific and Immediate decision of Its people, but by a slow adjustment of condi tions which the changes of time alone can bring about. So It must he with ttils most recent question of vital meaning to our country—tho race problem. "To me, a Northern woman, who heretofore bus based Iter knowledge of the negro upon history und book lore, this problem is at Us core a purely physical one. Before I ever came In direct contact with negro conditions I studied them as one studies all types of Immunity, studied about their thick black skin, their primitive bruin con struction, their naturally uncultivated tastes and habits. "They represented to me n good - ' specimen of one of God's lower or ders of humanity whom He made to tit a lower order of His universal plan: for although we may tHlk of the 'brotherhood of man' and put forth tho nhstract beauties of ‘equality,’ tve must In order to fulfill & universal plan, have different orders of humanity, differ ent scales of society, different plunes of development. The building of nny house requires both the ditch digger and accomplished uUlsun. Tho mo ment the dltclt digger ruuld he en- _ dowoj with the mental fueulties of the I hot of equullty, not of a few years' SAYS WIFE THREW THINGS AT Charging that his wife, whom ho married In England, tr«*tedv*Hm with “great rudeness and incivility and in tentional unklndnes*," that idle fre quently >Y£Bt into tantrum* unci' throw thing* at him and that she Anally serteth him, William Berrldgo tiled In tho superior court Friday moS asking.for a total divorce. * change thin unalterable fact • , *- r It to with the negro, .It ls.W»t a question of education, of opportune v’, of equality. It Is u big phyvlok u-v ii fact which barn tho fringe .man* from achieving, ns a race, an eqdul footing with the white than along any line, “In the North we hour tho rare prob lem discussed by all thinking men. It must necessarily btf to them more or less of an ubstracf question/ fori they do not coine In cobtbjit with its ma terial evidence. It appeula. totheir reason. To the Houtnerner It Is more vital. It strikes hi* heart. He dam- ■ .for Its Immediate soiatlpn. If the question were merely a sectional one, »i few master mlmto could sqjve It In a moment, put It Is, not. It is u prob lem, not of eduA'utlbii, not of politics artist, he would no longer be content with the ditch, and would lay down his pick and shovel and the house would not he built. But Ills creator wisely oidalned that he should not have the capacity for much greater ambition, nnd thus the scheme of hu- mnn toclety works out Its destiny. •'This Is not an argument for ’caste* in its cruel Eastern sense, but merely an acknowledgment of a universal fact; that some men must be served und others serving to complete the world's development; that some types of human beings must live, to whom u capacity for the highest mental de velopment is Impossible by absolute physical laws—be|ngs whose very bruin construction does not admit of uu equality with that of higher types of Immunity—nnd no law of man cun duration, nor springing from any spe cific muse—It Is Just one phase of llud's universal scheme of humanity which the adjustment of time alone can solve; a scheme which works und will work for all eternity to one sure end; 'The survival of the fittest'—nnd the fittest, according to all physical law Is humanity's highest type—the white man, "This undercurrent of nice contention Is nn inevitable result of new and rad ical changes In t*>lftiral conditions. It is small at its vital core, and will fndn Into oblivion before the big eternal fuct that the very physical und men- tal construction of a black man for ever burs him from attaining the plane of development which clod has decreed for His chosen masters of humanity— the white nmn.” Candy 50 Cents per Pound Candy 3( ) Cents per Pound Candy 2( Cents per Pound Candy 1( Cents per Pound GEO. E. JOHNSON CO. 33 WALL STREET. FRONT OF OLD CAR SHED. N. B.—Any father, or mother, or guardian who are uuable to buy their Christinas Candy for their children, if they will rail at Geo. E. Johnson’s Factory on De cember 21, 22, 24. they will receive a box of candy for each child FREE. This has been .Johnson's custom for the last twenty years, and the only candy factory in the United States that gives to the children free. -JJ