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■ THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. J WHDNUfliAV, ULCK.Mlll.lt tt, j e Have your pur chases charged and pay after Xmas CARMICHAEL-TALMAN FURNITURE CO. :“THE STORE THAT SAVES YOU MONEY.”: .74-76 WHITEHALL STREET. . , - i ■— You ai'e cordial ly invited to use our liberal credit system; it helps Our liberal credit system relieves the strain of heavy Christmas expenses—you are cordially in vited to select what you wish from this magnificent stock and haye the payments divided to suit your covenience—gifts of appropriate pieces of furniture adorn the home and give lasting pleasure and com fort. .You will find no trouble in selecting from this stock /I Christmas Presets? tor Ewerykoeiy Ladies’ Desk, Like Out, $12.50. A larfro and at'riictive line of La-, dine’Desks, Priced . $6.50 to $75. Others cheaper, others higher in price. Parlor Tables, all woods, $2*75 to $40.0® Quartered Oak Table Like Out. $12.50. Every article marked in plain figures and at one price; that’s the way we do business. D:eosin;» Table, like Cut, S25.CO. Tablo in Bird’s £79 Mo pie, 0*1: And Mahogany, priced $12.00 to $75.00. All of the beautiful calender* J j have been given out—If you related | ono we are aorry. Something new in Dressing Tables are our Adjustable Mir ror ones. Priced,. $30.00 to $50.00 China Oise, Like Cut, $35.00. Oak Cases up to $75.00. Solid Mahonjr Outs $65.00 to $125.00. China Cases are bought by us in car lots at car load prices, you get the benefit of both and ad vantage of larg est kind- of an assortment-.- we have closets that will match every kind of dining suit. Music Cabinet. Like Cut, $6.50. 20 different styles Music Cabinets, priced $6.50 to 340.00 Chair Like Cut, $10.50. This cut shqws the best Morris Chair in Atlanta for $10.60. It"« a real bar. gain. ... We are showing an excellent assort ment of Morris Chairs and Morris Rockers In oak, mahogany and the mission styles, at $12.50, $16.00, $20.00 and 325-00 Collarettes, Lika Out $40.00. Cellarettes—See our special in a cel- isretto with glassware, complete at SO 50 Everything in furniture from the cheap est that’s good to the best that’s made! Carmiehael-Talman Furniture Co., 74-76 Whitehall Street. - A small rug here and there or a large one for‘the center of the floor will add much to the good cheer and comfort 'of- home—nothing makes a more appropriate gift—we have them In all sites and all prices. .1 1 ijii ■!"■»<>' p 1 lew mi'wmjggm 'HE COLONEL HAS A GROUCH; CHRISTMAS SHOW WINDOWS MAKE HIM FEEL HIS POVERTY • a! By JOHN C. REESE. i’ndenlably tlio colonel hud a grouch 1 11^ didn’t try to conceal It. In ct. ho rather gloated over his Irrlta- ■ mate of mind. HI* usually genial i!*> wilt* ml suing and he glowered vuccl.” at everything, and everybody. hc uHtomed pleasant word for • ml and stranger alike had given v •-> rasping, crusty language thrust Hfhlvely at nil who came his wav. "It's my annual grouch." he said. “It sins early In December and end?; "it January -1. For eleven months the your I’m u fairly decent man. I at my wife und children right; I nd my own business, 1 ent. sleep and • I normally. But that one other nth I’m unfit for decent society. The reason? Plenty, plenty. What j ■iit*ss of yours Is it, anyway? But i • • mind, ni tell you. Maybe It will I m- good to unburden myself. Noth-1 bat this Christmas spirit that’s ad everywhere. pposed to It? No! No! No! Of ><• I'm not opposed to It. That’s trouble. If I was, It wouldn’t • r a hurrah with me. About l)e- "•r 1 1 walk along the principal ping streets and every window in J store Is tilled with beautiful and tilings. I see n thousand things 1 would like to buy for my wife, hlldren and my friends. 'I go Inside to see multiplied hun dreds of other beautiful and costly things. I price, half hesitatingly, some thing that I realise before the reply Is given thnt I cannot afford. Then I try something else less expensive look ing. but that, too, Is far beyond tny moans. So 1 go on down the list of things 1 should like to buy until I realize thnt out of all the wonderful, beautiful, useful and ornamental things I see everywhere I can buy none of them for my loved ones. I don’t want to buy cheap or shoddy presents for them and those that I want are beyond my reach. “Do you wonder, man. that I grow hitter and resentful? At no other time of the year docs my poverty depress me so. V.V are happy In our little home we have plenty to eat, comfortable clothes to wear und enjoy many pleas ures. Life Is pretty good eleven out of twelve months In the year. Guess It Is foolish to fee! that way about It, but I just can’t help It. “When I go In the stores and see peo ple buying nil these beautiful gifts with prodigal expenditures of cold cash I go up In the air. Those people haven't any sweeter or better families or friends than I have. That man’s wife or children aren’t any more deserving of beautiful presents than my wife and my children. But he has money and can buy them. I’m poor and cannot. “I’ve got the remedy, however, If I WHAT CHRISTMAS MEANS TO THE'POOR RA,LROAD schedules FROM A SALVATION ARMY STANDPOINT By MAJOR J. M. BERRIMAN, Divi.lonal Officer of Army 8outh. MAJOR AND MR8. BERRIMAN. H.ad« of Salvation Army in Atlanta, who aro Itadars in good doodo for tho city’a poor. By MAJOR JOHN M. BERRIMAN. "Chrfatmaa ia coming." A clad ex preaaion to moat people, for It meana to them a aeason of rejolclnr, the living and receiving of preaents, warmth, comfort and happlneas. The Spirit of Chriatmaa la abroad, and yet many, wrapped In their own happlneaa or that THE VICTOR SANITARIUM 321-323 Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Ga. OPIUM WHISKY -- 1 1 U iu 1 TT AAAUAVA p ltlMlU 6, not muter u Patlenta do not auffer aa 'hey do at many Inatltutlona. Comfort of patlenta carefully looked af- t«r. Sanitarium la home-llke and pleaaant. and not a prtaon. aa aome 'marine. Treatment entirely free from any harmful reaulta. For full particular* call or addroao Tho Victor Sanitarium, or Or. B. M. Woolloy, Leek Box 367. can get the low-maker, of Georgia to aee It from my viewpoint. The acheme? Why thla: An act to clone from De cember 1 to December 26 all atorea of all kinds that buy, display and sell Chriatmaa goods of any kind, excepting 6 and 10-cent atorea! Man, that would put us all on the same footing! Pover ty would not chafe me then. I’d get xne a gunny sack and about tl >0 In "currency and come home with presents for everybody. The man who ride. In automobiles and clips coupon* couldn't do any mure." The - colonel paused long enough to Are an Ink bottle at the grinning coun tenance of hla colored factotum, and when the stopper Hew out and scattered the contents over hla paper, the listen er Ned before the storm broke in 1 earnest. of their friends, almost forget there are others to whom Christmas meana nothing more than an ordinary Sabbath or holiday. Others whose names will be cheerless and wretched; others who are poorly clad and hungry, who will know no happiness or have no gifts except they come to them through such an agency as the Salvation Army. We may talk of the buss of the spin dles. the hum and rattle of the wheels of Industry, the general prosperity that la abroad In the land, such a prosperity as the country has never before known, and yet under our very windows al most within our hearing, are the walla of the sick and destitute, the pinched faces of Ill-clad and half-starved chil dren. who are kept from school and often compelled at tender years to be come bread winners In the family: these conditions remind us that there Is a fault somewhere and home are not getting their proper share of or the benefits of the prosperity we are pro fessing to enjoy. Tho old saying, "One-half of the world docs not know bow Uie other Borne.... NssbTlIlr.llitt s.m. Nashville. 7 36 p.m. CENTRAL OF OEOBOIA. Arrive From— Mscon 11:40sin Snvnnnnh ...4:10 pm Moron 1:10 pm Alliiny 10:20 pm ATLANTA AND^mgT POINT BAIL- ’ Dtpart To— Atlanta and West Point npsny srrtve ,t snd depi ‘ Terminal ststlon, corner md Meet—>n svenne. OEOBOIA BAII.BOAD. Arrive From— •Augusta .... 6:00 nm Conyers 6:46 nm Covington,... 7:40 am 'Augusta ....13:46 pm Llthonla 3:26 pm ’Augusts .... 5 JO put •Dally. All other ti list Depert To— ■Annit, 7:20 nm Mthonl, 10:06 nm •AnxiMl* 1:25 nm Confer. 5:00 |.m CavInxtoD ... 6:10 pm •Aufiuin 11:45 pm • In, ilalljr except Hun. 8EABOABD AIR LINE BAII.BOAD. Arrive From Washington . 7:30 am Athens ...... 1:26 am Memphis ...,11:46am New York.... 3:66 pm Clinton 7:65 pm Birmingham . 7:46 pm Shown In C . Depart To— Birmingham . 7:46 nm Clinton ....... 7:20nm New York....12:00 u’n Athens 4:00 pni Memphis 4:46 pm Washington .. 6:00 pm entrnl Time. LOW RATES ACCOUNT CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS VIA . Southern Railway Rate of one and one-third fare, plus 25 cents, for the round trip between all points east of the Mississippi River and south of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers is authorized.* Tickets will be Sold Dec. 20 to 25th, 30 and 31st, Also Jan. 1, 1907, Limited Jan. 7, 1907. Call on Southern Railway Agents. J /'T T T TO 1/' District Passenger Agent, . kUOlY, ATLANTA, GA. SORROW. By LAND0N CARTER. (Copyright, 1906, by W. It. Iliairet.) It lit not easy to solve the problem of •sorrow; liuleeil, there In no solution of It— unless cni'h Individual soul work* out its own ailiitIon; but this we do know, thnt of nil forms of purifying, grief Is the greatest. Any deep, unspeakable sorfow may well Im* termed n regenerator, n baptism, the Initiation Into n true nnd higher life, for Hod did not will It no, that grief, like mu- * terinl things, should totnlly decay, than leaving on.* the sume n git In—such fate noli liven. Is brought home afresh to would, Inded. Ik? o Nad, fruitless endlni us every day and the poor throughout tor ■» our anguish nnd self-control, the country have come m denend ■■>...» I >f »• retained iinihliig but our former weaknesses nnd frailties at the end of the the country have come to depend upon the Salvation Army as thole friend In poverty and sorrow. Not thnt we dis pense aid Indiscriminately, but rather that our aid Is prompt nnd effective, and our knowledge of their need thor ough, owing to the fact that our offi cers spend most of their time In the ~oorcr part* of the city and securing nourishment for the sick and coming In contact With that class of poor who have too much respect to make their wants known, yet who are really the most deserving and needy when their true condition Is found out. So at Christmas tide In this country 100,000 people will be furnished a good substantial dinner, tens of thousands of little children will receive gifts of clothing, shoes and stockings, as well as fruits and candles, and thousands of homes will be made happy through the visits of the soldier of the cross in his or. her uniform of blue. A good percentage of this number will be dis tributed in the South. What are the sacrifices of the com forts of the fireside or the Inconven iences that naturally come through the raising of funds by the lads and lassies on the bleak street corners as they faithfully watch ’’the pots,’’ compared to the Joy that comes from making many homes happy and giving a more practical conception of the Hplrit of Him who said, ’’Inasmuch as ye did It unto one of the least of these My little ones, ye did It unto Me.” • greet friend: arnteness of •finite, and tlm experience. Hut let iim rather he thnnkfu! thnt “sorrow lives in us us sn Indestructi ble force, only changing Its form ns tho forces do. and punning from pain into sytu pathy—the little world that includes ait I*est lit the carl/ „ row. There are then no memories of out lived pain to encourage ns. We have not suffered und Itceu henlcii or despaired and recovered hope." lief ore It cornea. It Is hard to imagine It possible. If one ever thinks of it ut all, aud when It does come it seems more Impossible still to under stand the meaning of the blow, for “love seemed too fnlr to carry in tts bosom the menace of Its loss,” and yet, true suffering must come to all those who rightly live, uad such grief Is not osly s preparation for. but also reconciles oue to, death, for the broader the life the greater nnd more numerous Ira accompanying temp tations. until the long continued self-sacri fices necessarily create a proportionate de sire for peace-rest, death, the great re conciler. There have been few broken hearts; for* with what might frequently cause them, there comes a (Jod-givtu strength to suffer. Yee, even that dumb, dry, deep, silent grief, does not kill, but ‘•cleanses from all Impurities’’ and brings for to a memory time • imng*■< the nsiHi-t of all things, or rather we be come different Interpreters, not weakening our love of the lost one, however, but prompting and exciting our hearts to do greater honor to our love. Youth occupies Itself chiefly with the semblance of things, until sorrow and beta tench higher realities, for does not deep grief, properly accepted, teach mors then nny purchasable Joys? Whut so truly and effectually demon strates the necessity of sph’ltaal consolation as the limitations of material wealth? In proportion to the strength and en nobling powers of healthy, grief, so also Is morbidness equally dangerous, for Ood d<*‘« not menu us to osefttfee onr duties to the living by dwelling constantly among our withered hopes; then. Indeed, one could never leant the meaning and lesson of sore row—grief should Incite future nobleness and activity rather than mere regrets and a nmrbid retrospection of the past. *Apres le plaislr vlent la peine Apres la peine, la virtu/’ ALL FRE8H. mage mnsepen—i suouia with green peas and potab his three cblldrenWTan a hen. You, Marie, go j aome chick* _ . landlord (to run nnd catch a hen. You, Marls, go ami gather some peas, and Karl, dig up a basket of potatoes.—Uouibe. P IERCE’ BUSY STORE 3 Southern Dry Goods and Shoe Co. 60 MARIETTA ST. OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE.