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OUR PLATFORM.-The Georgian
«tat;n* for Atlnntn'a owning Its own gas
and electric light plant*, ns It now
owns It* waterworks. Other dtlea do
ltd* and get ga* ns low a* 40 cents.
with a profit to the city. This should
l.e done at once. The Georgian !»*•
Here* that If street railways can.be
©ner;ited aur«easfully by Kuropoan
cities, n* they are. there la no good
reason why they cannot be ao op*-rated
here. But we do not believe this can
lie done now. and It may be some years
before we are ready for so Idg an un
dertaking. Still Atlanta should set Its
fa«e In that direction NOW.
The Carolinians and Judge
Bleckley.
It wia a beautiful compliment which
the South Carolina Society, composed
of tender and chlvalrlc gentlemen,
paid to Judge Uigan Bleckley, the
venerable Carollna-Gcnrglan at Ills
home lu North Georgia, when It waa
moved to send, through the graceful
words of Col. Henry D. Capertt, the as
surance of the tender respect and rev
erence which they had for the distiir
gulshed jurist whose career both per
sonally attd morally has always honor
ed both the commonwealth In which
be was born and the commonwealth In
which he lives.
Judge Bleckley Is one of the figures
who have grown dear through ninny
years to the people of Georgia. Ills
Individuality, his human nature, hla
kindness, his rich philosophy, his
quaint humor and his profound and
scholarly attainments In law have
gives him a high and noble place In
the respect and affections of lha Geor
gians of this generation.
Judge Bleckley Is one of the many
sous whom South Carolina has con
tributed In hla early youth to this
commonwealth of Georgia, and like
many others he holds his loyalty mi-
dimmed to the state of hla birth, while
It la expressed lu all of Its vigor to
the state of hla adoption.
Nothing that the South Carolina So
ciety expressed in tls deliberations
was more beautiful than those resolu
tions of sympathy drawn and frutned
by Colonel Capers, anil telephoned
that evening by the society to the
home of Judge Bleckley In Clarkes-
yllle. Ga.
Colonel Capers received on yester
day a note from Mrs. Bleckley ex
pressing her profound appreciation of
the compliment to Judge Bleckley, nnd
(or the gracious expression voiced In
the resolutions of the society, saying
that the tender message which they
Carried, were like a healing halm to
the judge's Illness, and that he had
staadtly and rapidly Improved atnee
their reception.
Surely the senate should write
Senator Beveridge to make a Christ
mas oration before he adjourns.
There is so much Christmas In the
■tores and In the homes and In the air
that It Is almost Impossible to think or
talk nr write of anything else.
It looks now from recent Improve
ments as If the railroads might be
about to give us some Christmas
schedules.
Atlanta ought to give the "Tech" Its
hearty desire as a Christmas gift. Sup
pose we do.
This Is the season of the year when
“Everyman" ought to read Dickens'
“Christmas Carol.”
"Roosevelt at Bulloch Hall" ought
to be a speech for the school boys to
declaim In future school commence
ments.
Do our naval constructors mean to
tell us that the "Connecticut" Is real
ly greater than the "Dreadnaught.”
Captain Hobson, shake!
The French are scarcely the people
to bring off a conservative revolution.
When Johnny Crapean gets mad he
wants to fight.
When a project becomes popular
those who threw cold water on ita In
ception are sometime, the swiftest to
bum fireworks on Its later progress
to success.
Senator Bailey can be felled upon
hereafter as a steadfast friend «f the
primary system of electing United
States senators In advance of the leg
islature.
THE PRESIDENT ON GEORGIA DAY AT JAMESTOWN.
The interview with President Mitchell, of the Jamestown Commission,
In these columns today, was given to The Georgian on Friday of last week
just after Commissioner Mitchell's return from an Interview with the
president, and was withheld from publication at the request of Mr. Mitch
ell In deference to the wishes of the president until the exact day was
named, oil which he would speak for Georgia at the Jamestown exposi
tion.
The exact day has not yet been named, but the announcement of
the president's speech on Georgia Day comeB from those who have taken
up the matter with the president since Mr. Mitchell practically concluded
It. And the Incident la all the more notable because some of those who
are now most enthusiastic over the event were quite conservative and
timid over the original suggestion of Bnlloch Hall as made by the commis
sioner himself.
There can be no doubt of the sincerity of the president's pleasure lit
this compliment which Georgia has paid him In the erection of Bulloch
Hall at Jamestown. The president Is a man of too much good taste not
to appreciate the greatness of Georgia, and to covet the Implied or ex
pressed approval of Its people. It Is an honor to any man, president or
emperor, to receive such a compliment as President Roosevelt has re
ceived from the people of this great commonwealth. Whatever else may
lie said of the president, he is at all times a gallant, warm-hearted and
chlvalrlc gentleman, and we can readily believe that the heartiness of
hla appreciation In accepting Mr. Mitchell’s request to speak on Georgia
Day was a sincere expression of his grateful acknowledgment of the honor,
and will be an equally sincere expression of his high personal affection
for the state.
How could any man with any thought, or right thinking in hla bosom,
be less than proud and fond of the state which gave his mother birth?
How could any man with traditions and Instincts fall to thrill with the
glories of a commonwealth to which his forefathers contributed their
honorable and substantial part? How could an American citizen of
any degree fall to appreciate a compliment paid by a great and sovereign
atate to hla mother?
From first to last the incident In one of the most beautiful nnd effec
tive In the recent history of our state, and Mr. Mitchell must be credited
for having engineered all through Ihe phases of an event which will be
of national Interest and which will Inevitably tend to bind the president
closer to this commonwealth and to the Southern people.
We do not think that the president has ever failed to appreciate the
commonwealth of Georgia. From the time that we captured Ills admira
tion and regard lit the glorious reception which we gave him here on a
bright October day n few yeara ago, and from the same day on which hla
cordiality and his hearty and resolute manliness captured us In turn,
he has not failed upon any occasion which lias offered to Illustrate hla re
spect for Georgia and Ills pleasure to do a service to the state.
We are quite confident that the president at Jamestown, speaking
In the reproduction of Ills mother's Georgia home to the Industrial and
sentimental suggestions of that grent exhibition, will rise to a greater and
more fraternal height of patriotic eloquence than he hna given voice to in
all the Illustrious years of his marvelous administration.
Georgians who hear nothing else should undoubtedly travel to the he
roic waters of Hampton Koada on Georgln Day to hear the most famous of
'modern presidents rise to greet the occasion which touches In one rich
and vital moment IiIb filial tenderness, hlB fraternal aympathlea and his
national pride.
It ought to be the speech of Theodore Roosevelt's life.
COUNCIL LIGHTNING
ON CHANGING MIND
mooo BOND ISSUE
IS RECOMMENDED
FOR IMPROVEMENTS
Special to The Georgian.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Dec. 18.—The
city council committee* have recom
mended a bond Issue for thl* city
amounting to 1750,000, of which amount
$275,00 i* to be devoted to sewerage,
$150,000 to street Improvements, $200,-
000 for a new city hall, $25,000 for city
parks, for the payment of the float
ing debt and to erect a new Are hall,
$100,000. The new city hall Is to be
erected on Eleventh street, where a
site has already been purchased by the
city.
Reversed Own Action
at the Last
Moment.
TO SAVE LANDS
IS HIS OBJECT
HIGH LICENSE WINS
AFTER HARI) FIGHT
THE PROMISE OF A PEACEFUL HOLIDAY.
No prospect that stretches foreward In this Christmas season Is more
pleasing than the well-founded promise af a Christmas of good order as
well as of good cheer.
Time was when our Christmas season had drifted through accumu
lating license Into nn orgy of disorder and discomfort to all right-
minded persons. The night that foreshadowed the coming of tho
Prince of Peace had grown hideous through the din of discord that made
the streets Impassable and life scarcely safe 111 the turbulent scenes of
the lawless and unrestrained.
That day la past some time ago, and our Christmas seasons have
hern for these three years past progressive Improvements along the line
of harmless enjoyment and Innocent fun without damage and demoniac
sounds.
It has a cheerful sound to the ears of our citizenship—the strong
word of vigorous warning which Judge Broyles has voiced far In ad
vance of the Chrlatnina season, and which other officers have taken up
and will develop Into practical and lawful enjoyment of a great and glo
rious day. ~
It la Just as well tiint this warning shall be repeated from time to
time before the coming of the holiday. It la Just as well that the press
should call again and again attention to the proclamations of the execu
tives of law and order In this community, atul that the Inwlesa should
enter upon this happy season with the full understanding thnt they are
to be protected 111 every enjoyment, nnd that they themselves must not
Interfere with the enjoyment of any other celebrant of the birth ef Christ.
And when It Is ull over, we nre sure that we will all, of every age and
of every class 111 tile city of Atlanta, concede thnt we have been all the
happier and heartier, and our holldny all the more helpful and Inspiring If
we shall spend It within those reasonable,limits In which joy Is express
ed without madness, ami festivity without excess.
The highest element of our Christian civilization will have been
reached when this great Chrlstlau people realize 111 youth aipl In age the
full meaning amt purpose of this great festival day and shall carry that
consciousness Into their lives and actions while they celebrate and re
joice with their fellownieti over the coming thnt meant, nineteen hun
dred years ago. and means today, "Pence on earth, good will to men.”
ATLANTA’S RADIANT LITTLE SISTER.
We have a slater city In the South which has Imbibed the real spirit
of modern progress and Is reaping In every prosperous year of Ita grow
ing existence the lieueflts of Us enterprise and of Ita radiant faith III
Its own possibilities.
We refer to Jacksonville, In Florida. Jacksonville with n population
of 21,000, waa teu yeara ago destroyed by fire more completely than any
city has ever been burned Iti the history of modern times. Never In any
Instance was there such widespread desolation or so complete an oblit
eration of residences, of business streets, of commercial thoroughfares,
of wharfages and of suburban residences. The annihilation was com
plete and apparently overwhelming.
Hut the one thing which the fire did not destroy amid these gentle
but indomitable people of "the Land of Flowers,” was that heroic spirit
that does not know how to despair br to surrender.
Men 111 colder regions who are accustomed In vaunting measure to
boast of the superb mid dauntless energy nf the more northern peoples,
will find a parallel for their greatest efforts and their largest perform
ances lu the material nilrarle ef Jacksonville's recuperation. The Jack
sonville of today has nearly doubled Hie population that It bad the day It
burned. It Is now a city id over 40,000 people and Is pressing hard and
fast after Us sister cities 111 tile South. Tile buildings of the old historic
city have been far eclipsed and utterly overshadowed In the nieniorlea of
the older residents In the stately and splendid structures which represent
the Jacksonville of today, where there was a shanty in the Jacksonville
of 1S96, there 1s a structure of brick or stone today. Where there were
small stores there are now large and stately buildings, and In every In
stance the structure which has come to rejdaee the structure that was
burned la taller and statelier and more Impressive than the old.
Better than this: Out of Ha baptism of fire, Jacksonville has come for
ward with a new spirit of progress. Hnd energy, with a dauntless courage
and ambition such as H never had before. It seems to have takeu on
new life. Its ambitions are large, heroic and fought with magnificent
audacity. It has esiabllahed a half -a-million club whose audacious pur
pose la to build Jacksonville to a population of half-a-mllllon souls with
in the present half century. Its Secretary. C. I,. Ilomiey, Is one of the
most tireless and Indefatigable workers of Southern commerce, and the
fame and the policies of this new and phoenix risen metropolis of our
beautiful sister state nf "the Land of Flowers," has filled and is rap
idly filling the southwest with the repute of Us enterprise. Us beauty, Us
energy and Us laudable ambitions.
It gives our Twentieth Century Atlanta, capital and metropolis of
Dixie, the sincerest pleasure to congratulate with all Its heart, our little
sister of Jacksonville upon the budding and maturing charms of Us glo
rious womnuhiMMl. We predict for it a long anil brilliant career of helle-
dom among nur Southern cities, and we are quite confident that Its con
quests and Us nchlevenienta will satisfy even the vaulting spirit of the
bright metro polls of the statu of Florida.
STOCKS IS WINNER
OP PLACE ON BOARD
Special Police Committee
Discharged After Work
Is Completed.
By a vote of 14 to 10, Thotnaa F.
Stock* was re-elected water commls
slonor .Monday afternoon at the meet.
Ing of general council over Joseph L.
Cobb, Jr. Mr. Stock* was filling :in
unexpired term from the first ward
and of those elected he wn* the only
one who hnd opposition.
Hugh M. Dorsey wn* re-elected
unanimously ns commissioner from the
second ward, while Daniel 8. Walraven
was unanimously elected from the fifth
ward to fill the unexplred term of J.
D. Turner, whose resignation was ac
cepted at .the meeting Monday after
noon.
Considerable Interest was manifested
In the selection of the three commis
sioners. .especially in the first ward,
where there was opposition.
SALOON MOVEMENT
IN IIOGANSVILLE
J. B. Richards and W. D. Upshaw,
*f the Georgln Anti-Saloon League, re
turned Monday from a visit to Hogans-
vllle, Ga., where they spoke Sunday
njght to a big audience. The dispen
sary at Hogansvllle was closed De
ember 1 and an effort Is being made
to elect a city council which will permit
saloons to be licensed. Strong opposi
tion Is being shown by the Anti-Saloon
League, and the two speakers lent their
efforts to the cause, upon Invitation
from the people of Hogansvllle.
CRAZED FROM MORPHINE
MAN CUT8 HIS THOAT.
Hpecfnl to The Georgian.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Dec. 18.—Crazed
by morphine and despondent over Ill
ness, George T. Gibson committed sui
cide here by cutting his throat from
ear to ear with a razor. He sat up In
bed and slashed his throat, then at
tempting to walk down stairs he fell
and rolled In a heap to the floor.
"1 got crazy from morphine and cut
my throat." That is all the explana
tion he made. He came here a week
ago from Hampton, Va., where his
mother and brother reside. He died
three hours after having cut his throat.
BUND LED THE CRIPPLE
IN THE BEGGARS' RAID.
Hpeclnl to The Georgian.
Albany, Ga., Dec. 18.—For several
days during the latter part of last week
his city was Infested with as bold a ?,!VTP < ll ne y t «i n R?»n ,n ®J [[cense $2,-
' . , , . . 000 Instead of $1,o00, when It came up
- * v * r nnj * p “ ,Ad ’ for reconsideration It was adopted al-
All the restrictions and regulations of
the whisky traffic recommended by the
special police committee were adopted
by council Monday afternoon, except
ing that council voted In favor of even
higher licenses than the committee
wanted.
Instead of the retail license being
fixed at $1,500, as recommended, council
voted In favor of a $2,000 license, and
Instead of $300 as a beer license, $400
was set.
This and previous councils have
done many queer and funny things,
but never was there a more complete
and sudden change of front than was
made Monday on the question of the
regulations of the whisky traffic, rec
ommended by the special committee.
Men who had been considered In the
forefront In fighting the saloons and
opposing new licenses, voted In favor
of granting two new applications yes
terday, when there were any number
of applications then on the table which
had never been considered.
Men who were generally understood
to favor high licenses voted against the
amendment of Alderman Peters to
make the license $2,000, Instead
$1,500. But the biggest surprise of the
day was when council unanimously
voted In favor of laying the whole re
port of the committee on the table.
Council, having granted two licenses
for new saloons, having defeated the
amendment of Alderman Peters to
make the saloon license $2,000, and
having voted to lay the report of the
committee on the table, and even after
having discharged the committee, the
saloon tnen left the council chamber,
rejoicing that they had won such a
sweeping victory.
Change of Front.
Four members of the general coun
cil, also thinking that this Important
matter had been settled, also left. Those
ere Alderman Sims and Councilmen
Glass, Taylor and Roberts.
And Dien followed the double-quick
and quite artistic right-about-face that
will make the council of 190$ go down
In history.
Alderman Key moved to reconsider
the granting of the license to W. H.
Mitchell for a saloon at 18 North Broad
street, and Councilman Wlkle moved to
reconsider the granting of a license to
A. C. Mlnhtnnett for 68 Decatur stxeet.
Alderman Harwell, when time for vot
ing came, called Councilman Pattlllo
to the chair for "diplomatic reasons."
The vote to reconsider Minhlnnett’s
license was as follows:
Aldermen Harwell, McEachern. Pe
ters, Key. Councilmen Martin, Foster,
Pomeroy, Draper, Wlkle, Hancock, Pat
terson.—12.
Against reconsideration: Aldermen
Holland and ITlrsch, Councilmen Cur
tis, Terrell, Oldknow, Chosewood and
Ellis—7.
The vote on reconsidering Mitchell's
license was the same, except that Coun-y
oilmen Terrell and Chosewood changed
from "No" to "Yes."
Although council had once defeated
gang of fake beggars as ever operated.
There were five In the number, and
four claimed to be paralytic and one
blind. The officers had their suspiclQn
aroused ns soon as the crooks began
begging, and at the union depot two of
them were arrested for being drunk
and disorderly, the blind one was lead
ing a supposed cripple around. They
gave their names as George Wilson
and Horace Thomson, of Birmingham,
Ala.
DOES THE SOUTH WANT IT7
The rou tent Ion Hint the Smith might well
furnish the next Democratic enudhiiite for
preftldent 1* not confined to the South. In
fact, not many thoughtful Southerner*
make It. but It linn been nmde l»jr various
Northern Democrat* nml iiewHPniH'r*. uud
even by Republican*. The Philadelphia
Dcntocrt
vlileh furtili
think* thnt
I*t of the
.. tornl vote* should lie sl
ed to mime the cundhlnte and write the
platform lu 1»>S. It nays
of the party throughout the
country t* thoroughly tired of experiment*.
The South, through nil the year* of re
construction and rend Ion »lne© the done
of the civil war, ha* persisted In steady
allegiance Uf the principle* upou which
the policies of the country were molded
liming the strenuous formative rear* nf
the nation. It i* clear thnt .Southern
Democrat* who made the early day* of
the Republic llliiMtrlous,
power **“
though out
generation, have uot lout
k or Ntntennmnthlp. There nre
of able Hoiitheruer* lu public life
nt
mocrntic |
ere It fom
I .Incknon.
The
problen
the country might dr
lhem. Why should Uot tho
nrtv go South once more,
id Jefferson. Mndlnon, Monroe
and where l.ineolu wn* bred?
*f w*r nre heated. The most
that coufrout* the future
... . to Ih» dealt with uud *et-
rled a* a Southern problem. In till* In*-
half, the North, acting precipitately from
sentiment, rather than knowledge, ha* made
inirortnnnte mistake*. Why should not the
•tate* below the Mason nml Dixon line lu
in.- present exigent KttiMtlon resume their
commanding political lm|>ortnnee. especially
now that the line ha* been erased and »ec-
t Iona I hiMitllltle* obliterated?"
All thl* wound* reasonable. Much of it
I* true, and nil of It ought to be true. But
if the policy suggested by The Record
were carried out wo far ns the platform
nnd candidate are concerned, would not
the crtinpalgn tend to arouse sectional ar
gument nnd prejudice nnd feeling, and
would Northern Democrats, and the itule-
pcndcnt* wluwe vote* are necessary, rally
... the ticket with that unnnlmlty nnd .
thttslasin necessary to success? If so. then
by nil menu* let u* have s Southerner for
1‘nndblate
form. If we
without hope of vlcloi
nt least, ouce
why should
>ry. a* we hnv
withiu the !n»t decade, then
Pilot have a Southern can-
llhlate Instead of an Eastern or n West
[crti on#? If the party purpose* to enter
the fight with the nope ami expectation of
wlunlug. then the availability and fitness
of the candidate *tv>uld Im> regarded with
lout referein*e to the question of section. I
The South can fttrulsh a candidate sho Is]
Hpahlc and worthy. When the time n>me«[‘
most unanimously, only one or two vot
ing In the negative. When the ordi
nance, drawn up by the committee,
which had been luld on the table a few
minutes previous by the unanimous
vote of council, was reconsidered but
two votM against Its adoption—Aider-
man Holland and Councilman Chose
wood.
Dr. White Talks.
Dr. John E. White, pastor of the
Second Baptist church, made a short
address to council on the subject of the
proposed regulations, when they came
up for consideration. He said no half,
hearted and half-way measures of
council could ward off a prohibition
electlqn.
He said the whisky license should be
made $2,000, as the committee first
recommended, and that the beer license
should not be held down to just $300
under the false assumption that beer
drinking should be encouraged. He also
pleaded with council to have the regu
lations embodied In the city charter.
Falling to do these things. Dr. White
said he and all the prohibitionists pre
ferred Infinitely that council lef the
matter alone, so that the new council
would be free to take action.
The action of council In adopting the
report of the*special police committee
as amended by Alderman Peters,
means tills to the whisky men:
Retailers will have to pay a $2,000
llrenae. Instead of $1,000, as hereto
fore.
Wholesale houses will have to pay
$1,000 license, instead of $300
heretofore.
Wholesale beer houses will have to
pay $500, Instead of $25o.
Retail beer will have to pay $400 for
a license. Instead of $250.
Not another saloon can be establish
ed until the population of Atlanta has
grown to 120,000. After then but one
license can be granted for each 1,500
Increase In population.
The records and the ability of appll-
President Tells Congress
I
. of Frauds in the
West.
^Washington, Dec. 18.—In a special
message to congress yesterday, the
president discusses the public land
frauds In the West.
"The developments of the past year,"
h$ says, "emphasize with Increasing
foj*ce the need of vigorous and Imme
diate action to recast the public land
laws and adapt them to the actual^slt-
uatlon.
"There Is but one way by which the
fraudulent acquisition of these lands
can be definitely stopped, and, therefore,
I have directed the Secretary of the In
terior to allow no patent to be Issued
to public land under any law until
actual compliance with that law has
been found to exist. For this purpose
an Increase of-special agents In the
general land office Is urgently re
quired.
"The present coal law limiting the
individual entry to 160 acres puts a
premium on fraud,'* he says, "by mak
ing ft Impossible to develop certain
types of cdal fields not violating the
laiv." I
For the Improvement nnd develop-
mfent of national forests the president
recommends thnt the secretary of the
treasury be authorized to advance $5,-
000,000 to the forest service to be re
paid In installments after ten years.
He also recommends the transfer of
national parks to the department of ag
riculture.
GOSSIP
By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER.
New York. Dec. 18.—They tell , n ,
that substitute golf la the name of the
newest of all the new gamee. ami that
already society' has taken It up with
vigor.
The name, aa Ha name Indicates, i, t
substitute for the Scotch game—one to
be played Indoor*, when enow cover,
the links and when but for Its inveii.
tlon the golfer would have nothin* to
do, save to elt by the fire and spit,
yarns of famous battles on the greet-.
All the plays possible to open atr
golf are embraced In the substitute, and
thus are shown by Instructors at n n ,
of the department stores. The game
la played with nine boards, each ,,f
which represents a hole on the link.
Instead of clubs, disks are ucd
There are nine disks, each standing for
a club—the mashle disk, niblick dl.lt
and so forth. In place of swinging a
club, the player spins a disk, making
the play on the charted board indi
cated by that section of the disk to
which a fixed arrow points when ths
circle stops spinning.
The substitute game. Invented by *
well-known Jersey goiter, who plays ..a
the Metropolitan team, represents ac
curately actual playing conditions on a
well diversified link of nine holes.
SHOT BY COMPANION
WHILE BIRD HUNTING
Special to Th# Georglnn.
Wnahlnton, G*., Dee. 18.—Mnrcu* A.
I Mm it. Ihe seeoml non of M. A. I’hnrr, n
prominent cotton factor of tills city, was
vlcltliu of nn accident Hnturdn.v nfter-
i white out hunting with n company of
coninnulonn which inny result fatally.
While the lw»,v wn* on the opposite side
’ n nninll tirnnch, obscured by file hunh
covey of bird* wn* flushed. HI* connw
n on the npp<Mlto wide, not knowing of I
. *c*ence, fired lit close range, with the re
*ult thnt the entire load of shot entered
young Pharr** left side. The young man
wn* brought to the city mid physlclnn* sum
med. finding that the lung and Intestinal
ct hnd been penetrated. An operation
wn* performed by Dr. Doughty, of Au
gusta. who arrived nt midnight on n special
train, assisted by Dr. Johnson, of Klbertou,
nta.l I ksu i n ftwl If A ill.ii.iann ..I
Vice President and Mrs. Fairbanks
will be joined this week by Mr. and
Mr*. Warden C. Fairbanks, of Chicago,
and their baby daughter; Robert Fair,
banks, of Yale; Mr. and Mrs. Freder
ick Fairbanks and Richard Fairbanks.
The daughter of the family, Mrs.
Timmons, and Lieutenant Timmons, r.
S. N., are already In Washington, ond
n right merry party will sit around the
table In the spacious dining room <>n
Christmas day.
John F. Clark, aged 44. a church
choir singer, was arrested by the police
of Mt. Vernon on a warrant sworn out
by Ills wife. Susan Clark, also a sing
er, who charged him with desertion
and bigamy.
When Clark was arrested he ex
claimed: "My God, don’t tell my wife,
for It would break her heart."
For the past two yeurs Clark. It ie
said, has been courting Miss Bessie
Hector.
nud Drs. A. W. nnd ft. A. Simpson, of
till* city. After the operation the little
pnfleiit showed n slight Improvement.
Pharr Is barely alive. There may bo
a slight change for the better this
morning.
COMING TO ATLANTA;
REV. HUNT WILL DO
EVANGELISTIC WORK
Sped*I to The Georgian.
Greenville, 8. C., Dec. 18.—Rev. F. D.
Hunt, pastor of Palmer Presbyterian
church, has resigned his charge here
and will go to Atlanta to engage In
evangelistic work.
He Is one of the city’s most popular
ministers.
MOTORMAN DRIVES CAR
OVER HI8 MUTE FRIEND.
Special to The Georgian.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Dec. 18.—Ill-fat
ed car No. 39 of the stieet railway,
which left the track some weeks ago,
killing several people, ran over Tom
•V. Ralston, a deuf mute, this morning
at Ridgedale. killing him Instantly.
The pathetic side of the story Is that
Ralston was one of me best friends of
Motorman C. A. Smith, who was drlv
Ing the car. Ralston leaves a deaf
mute wife and two deaf mute children.
He was attempting to cross the
tracks when run over.
ASKS FOR $100,000
FOR NEWBERRY POSTOFFICE.
cants for licenses must be looked Into.
_ *d polltbfi t<
•uthem l>cn»*NTat. then let him
luinatcil. If tin* pr»**pect 1* gloomy,
•iiiiiintlou way be ivnniN tu a South-
vru mat*.
Where the Georgia Delegation Liva
In Washington.
SENATORS.
Augustus O. Bacon. 1757 Oregon
avenue.
A. 8. Clay, the Normandie.
CONGRESSMEN.
W. C. Adamson, the Oxford.
C. L. Bartlett, the 8horeham.
Thomas*M. Bell, the Iroquois.
W. O. Brantley, the Chapin.
T. \V. Hardwick, the Shoreham.
W. M. Howard, the Bancroft.
Gordon Lee. the Shoreham.
K. B. Lewis, the Metropolitan.
J. W. Overstreet, the Metropoli
tan.
L. F. Livingston, 1916 Biltmore
street.
J. M. Griggs, the^Metropolitun.
Special to The Georgian.
Newberry, 8. C„ Dec. 18.—Congress
man Wyatt Aiken has Introduced a bill
in congress asking for an appropria
tion for the erection In Newberry of
a $100,000 government building.
By the close of the present fiscal
year It Is probable that Newberry will
have free delivery of mail, and while
the local postoffice has been recently
fitted up with this In view, the people
are very anxious to secure a govern
ment building.
Lady Angela Scully, widow of wil
liam Scully, the multi-millionaire, who
renounced his title to become an Amer
ican citizen, nnd who died in London
the latter part of October, is In Wash
ington and has rented one of the hand
somest houses In the city, the residence
of Mrs. Charles Grayson Dulin, 17.70
Sixteenth street.
Lady Scully' Is accompanied by her
daughter. Miss Angelita Scully, and her
two sons, Thomas A. and Frederick.
The family Is In deep mourning find
expects to pass the winter very quiet
ly.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
DECEMBER 18.
1745—I’r I lire Charles Ed word. *nn of Jam*!
III of Englnnd. won battle nt Penrith.
1807—Napoleon published Milan decree.
1835—Iter. I.yinnn Abbott Ihtii.
1854—file* hut Westmoreland sunk In I .nice
Michigan: seventeen lost.
1*61—Stone fleet sunk In Charleston hnrln.r.
1665—TIioiiiiih Corwin. Ohio statesman, died.
Horn July 29, 1794.
1871—Fourth National bank of. Phlladrlplilft
1894— First parish councils elected In L»i
ATLANTA MU8ICAL TALENT
FOR MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT.
Hperinl to The Georgian.
Greenville, 8. t\, Dec. 18.—Greenville
music lovers are looking forward with
a great* amount of pleasure to the
beautiful oratorio, "The Messiah.''
which will be rendered on Thursday
morning, the chorus numbering 200
voices. The soloists have been en
gaged from a distance, Misses Broun#
and Gilbert, of Atlanta, taking the so
prano and contralto solos, and an or
chestra of twenty-five pieces will play
the accompaniments. Professor Ha«-
strom, of the chleora College musical
department, and Walter Brown, of the
music faculty of the Greenville
male College, will be the bass soloists.
ANOTHER BARN BURNS
IN NEWBERRY COUNTY.
Special to The Georgian.
. Newberry, 8. C., Dec. 18.—News has
been received In Newberry of the
burning at an early hour last Sunday
morning of the barn and stable of I* '•
H. M. Ruff, In the Mount Pleasant
section of the county. A mule, farm*
Ing-Implements and a large supply of
feed were destroyed by the flames.
A CHRISTMAS 4
KODAK
Kodak picture, taken now make Chriatma.
cheer laat all Jhe year.
A Kodak and a few llaah sheet, for taking a pic
ture of a whole room full of happy young people,
I. all you n-ed to make the Chrietma. spirit com
plete.
Juat think of taking real photographs with a
Kodak by merely preealng a button: pictures ao
natural that they almost speak.
Then they coat so little—H and 12 for tho
Brownies and up to 835, for the larger sited Ko
daks, and anybody, even a child, can handle them.
Come In und see them, and sample pictures.
We do developing and printing and have all
kinds of fresh Kodak supplies.
A. K. HAWKES CO.
THEKODAKHOUSE.
14 WHITEHALL STREET. -