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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, Tt'KBDAY. UEl'KMHKB IS, :chm Timm ckmins. wto- f, L SHIV. Mlisktr. Published Every Afternoon (Except Sunday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY, At 25 Writ Alabama St., Atlanta. Ga. Subscription Rates. One Tear Six Month* 2*5? Tbrc# Month* 1-25 By Carrier. Ter We#k IP Telepnoftee connecting all departments. I.onx distance terminals Smith A Thompson, advertising rep- reaentMtlres for all territory outside of Georg1n. Chicago Office Tribune Bldf. New York Office Totter Bldg. If you bare any trouble petting TUB GEORGIAN. telephone the Circulation Department and hare It Pf° n lPj , y.*’ e 1 ,n ' edleil. Telephones: Bell 4927 Mslo. GEORGIAN be limited to 400 word* In length. It I* Imperative that they lie signed, ns an evidence of good faith. THE GEORGIAN prints no nnclean 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. -