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I - THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. MONDAY. DECEMBER it. 1WC THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN rws runt «*m$. mii* t. 1. SCIIV. Fublltktr. Published Every Afternoon .Except Suadayl By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY. At 25 West Alabama St.. Atlaota. Ca. Subscription Rates. one Veer $4*2 six Months . fjj Tbr*« Month*...^ *•» By Cnrrlor. IV r VTnnk *• Yvlvpnniiei connecting nil dcp«rfn»«tit». I.ang dlitnnc* terminal*. Smith * Thompson, mlveitlaloc rep* rra^ututlre* for all territory outelde or Georgia. Chicago Office Tribune B14f. New York Office Potter Htdg. It I* deelm hie that nil communlci- lion* Intended for publication In TUB GEORGIAN lie limited to 400 word* In length. It Is finpemtivc that they he •fgned. na an evidence of good faith, though the names will he withheld If requested. Reacted manuscripts will not !»e returned unless stamps nrs sent for Ibe purpose. THE GKOftOMN prints no unclean nr objection.?Me Advert 1*1 uy. Neither does It print whisk? or an? liquor ads. OUR PLATFORM.-Thc Georgian •lands for Atl.intii's owning Its own gas and electric light plants, as It now with n profit to the city. This should I* done nt once. The Georgian he* Here* that if street railways enn he operated successfully by European dertaklng. fltlll Atlnntn should set It* face In tbit direction NOW. Judge Roan’s Peace and Order Proclamation. • Judge Hoan adds Ills official warn ing from the County ami the judicial circuit, to the announcement made by Judge Uroylea of the recorder’s office, that law breakers would have no consideration during this week which belongs to happiness, to fellow ship, and to the Prince of Peace. There is no doubt of the fact that the officers and executives of law In Atlanta and in Georgia Intend to see to It that this Christmas season shall I not be desecrated by any condition nr incident that Is riotous, revolu tionary. or prejudicial to the peace and order of the state. Judge Roan Is thoroughly In earnest In the statement which he has made. He I* a man above political by-play or liersonal motives In the conduct n| his public life. The Judiciary of Geor gia has not a higher or more stainless representative than he and with all the force of his high and lieautlfnl moral character shining behind the Arm and resolute words of his judicial utterance we may rely upon It that the courts and officers of the law are of one mind and of one accord In the Arm determination to keep this Christ mas season from the Incidents which ■tain society and degrade the state. The victory of the old crowd in the Mutual l.lfe Insurance election shows that It Is hard to separate a man from his money and much harder to sepa rate him from other people's money. Alter winning that Nobel peace prise. President Roosevelt Is more convinced than ever that, peace hath victories far more renowned than those of war, « Senator Depew's claim that he has severed all connection with the cor porations will hardly be accepted so long as be remains In the senate. San Francisco has no objection to the president's looking ,'fter other peo ple's business, provided San Francisco isn't the other people. As for ourselves, we don't believe that President Roosevelt will ever oc cupy Senator Platt's seat until it has first been fumigated. The president seems perfectly will Ing to tell what congress shall do with everything except that new $15,000,060 surplus. It la not surprising to find million hire philanthropists giving away lakes, as water can no longer lie used In trust stocks. Perhaps that new French law for bidding people 'to go to church Is Just a shrewd way of being sure that they will go. Senator'Beveridge's desire to abol ish all child labor Is another reason for regretting that we are no longer children. The creditors of Count Honl. who are not to be paid with the Gould, millions, also agree that marriage Is a failure. One reason why the railroads can not save any money Is that they have to pay for so many new salts. , The critic who recently questioned the reality of Anna Held's fame evi dently overlooked the cigar. The British house of lords is said to,be on trial. It will probably be found guilty. Whether a mtn is a grafter or a thief depends upon' bow much be geU. THE GREATNESS OF “DAN’L GREGG." Here is a homely poem from an unknown poet writing In The Chicago Record-Herald. It Is good reading in this period when the heart Is soft and turned to Its own betterment and to altruistic thought: Tbnt Don't wasn't hardly what you’d call A number une. hi- got tils schoolin' mostly out be. Yon never hear of Pnn’l Gregg, I dou't suppose; tint say, I wnnt to tell you there are few aa great He aa him today: never held no offices, t.nt Just 'twtxl in.- unit you. Ain't tills ben- boldin' office something great men seldom do'; No, Don't he Just formed It—licked along ibrougb'tnlck and llrlti— Quiltin' tote nud startin' early, mcettn* trouble with a grin: lie didn't leave r wish to state That, in my opinion, Dan‘1 should lie millions, tint again I n my opinion, Dan‘1 i tiered with the great. fl, fatin' on‘tlie land < He never done on tlin sea: It.- wasn’t no Nopoleon nor n Grant, nor yet n Lee; No doubt this Her pen I Morgnn could of He never wrote no poems, nor got up In vention so The world wonld move on swifter than the good laird made It go: 1 couldn't preach r the law in you, nut he ralaed two nova., nr s'".j. ions ' were deeent through ana tbrongh. He taught 'em to he honest, and be taught 'em to lie true: He tnngbt 'em to lie insiily, and that lliere'a a lot to do. He rained hla hoya to honor him, and so I wlah to atate That, In my opinion. Han’t should lie tiiiui why. I’m nfrald ' tiered with the great. Now why should we bother a poem like this with an editorial com ment. It explains Itself. It carries Its own lesson and Its own moral. It Is better than any editorial which could harasa it. What constitutes a state? Not high raised battlements nor martial armament, but men. clean men, brave men and true. As a monungent to any man’s memory there’s no sort of compari son between a future for children to waste, and children' who are a for tune In themselves. The debt, of Georgia la not to the Ell's who raise np children after the build of Haphni and Phlneas, but to the Cornelias whose sons are not less the “Jewels” of their mother than the real or naments of the state. - We will take our chances on the orators and statesnien of the coming decade If God will send Georgia,in every voting precinct, a Dan'l Gregg, "Who'll raise two bojs, by golly, who are decent through and through.” MOST FREQUENT CAUSE OFDIVORCES IS DECLARED BY DOROTHY DIX TO BE QUARRELS OF MARRIED FOLK I j Cl O S SIP I OVER THE RIGHT TO OPEN EACH OTHER’S MAIL 1 Reading of Letters an Offense Against Good Manners. BIRTHDAY OF FRANKLIN CELEBRAI ED B Y PRINTERS ASSUMPTION IN ACT FLY IN OINTMENT Seeuis to Strike at Personal Liberty and Is a Hoodoo To Happiness. A CAUTION TO ENGINEERS. The Georgian has been making an honest effort to persuade the rail- roads that they would secure better service In the now vastly more re sponsible office of telegraph operator by paying better prices and by shortening the hours of the long tension In which these operators are held. We have good reason to believe that this necessary reform Is Impress ing Itself upon the minds of the railroad men of the country, and that it will he one of the desirable improvement* of the present upheaval. There Is another phase of this railroad question which can per haps he bettered., by calling public attention to It. It frequently hap pens that engineers In.charge of locomotives hold the throttle far longer than It Is'either safe or proper that they should do. And this is an evil for which the engineers are sometimes as much responsible as the rail roads themselves. In all caars the engineers are paid for additional trlpa which they take out of their regular runs, and for emergency trips going over their time. In this age of accumulation It Is frequently a tempta tion to engineers to voluntarily assume this additional labor and tax for the sake of the money that is In It. The temptation to make a few dollars more In a single day frequently leads these men to finish one trip which Is a regular assignment and then voluntarily assume ahd sometimes to ask for an extra trip for the sake of the money that It brings. It Is not often that an engineer Is found guilty of neglect of duty, hut an old and experienced master of the throttle told the editor of The Georgian the other day that to his personal knowledge some of the worst accidents of recent times had been due to the fact that an engineer had positively been nodding at his throttle from the loss of sleep. Of course this ought to be made Impossible In this time of danger and of accident. It Is a danger which threatens too nearly the lives and safety of too many people to be lightly considered, and If the railroads cannot find any satisfactory and definite method to prevent It, then the low should put a penalty both upon the railroads and upon the engineer for overtaxing na ture and human endurance In men who carry tbe safety and lives of their fellow men In their alertness, their" vigor and their dear-eyed capacity for good work. BISHOP KEILEV’S IMPULSIVE UTTERANCE. There will lie fAttnd many. Including some staunch and loyal Gath- olios,' 10 regrit the 'Utterances nr IHsbOp Kelley, nt Savannah, on Sunday. It Is unfortunate that the Bishop should stress at this time the advjce to Ills people to obey the laws of the church before those of the state, and go announce that he would unhesitatingly break the laws of Georgia and advise hli people to break them If those laws Interfered In any way with the duties of the church. Bishop Kelley Is a warm-hearted and gallant gentleman, who has thousands of friends all over the South In hla own and In other religious denominations. We feel sure that the fervent spirit of the ecclesiastic, stirred by the recent events In France, must have tempted him to utter ances which we senreely believe he would have made under any other circumstances. Fortunately fqr the lliehop and for the people who share his relig ious views, the Hope Is not likely to make any decree which would con flict with the laws of Georgia or of the republic, and our good frlenda of the Catholic church are not likely to be called upon to follow Bishop Kelldy In any rising or rebellion against the statutes of this common wealth. We feel sure that the conservative clergy of the Catholic church contemplate na such catastrophe. The Reverend J. R. Guun. of Atlnntu, who has rapidly grown to be one of the moat influential leaders of his church, Is also one of Its most conservative members, and he with other Catholic clergymen of the city and the state, would, we are sure, deprecate any effort to place the church In antagonism to the state. Plus'the Tenth, the present pope. Is himself a man of liberal spirit and of progressive'Ideas. There Is nothing In his. record which would Indicate so sharp a conflict as that which Bishop Kelley Impulsively out lines In bis Savannah address, and we trust that the good Bishop of Savannah who holds so large a share of the respect and confidence of the people of the Bouth will not stress any further the doctrines and views to which he has Jnst given utterance. Preliminary arrangements for- the celebration of the nlrthday of Benja min Franklin, to be held under auspices of Atlanta Typographical Union, No. 48, on January 1*. were mode at a meeting of the general committee, held In the hall of the Federation of Trades, In North Forsyth atreeti Sunday aft ernoon. The meeting was largely at tended, and the committeemen evinced genuine enthusiasm In their work. It being their Intention of making the celebration, which has been annually observed by the unton for a long time, one of tha most elaborate and notable events of Its kind ever given here. The committee organized by electing W. B. Correll chairman and Walter H. Grant, secretary-treasurer. After dis cussing plana for the entertainment in • By DOROTHY DIX. A FAMOUS divorce lawyer haa recently made the atatement that, Incredible as It seems, the thing that causes divorce oftener than almost anything else Is married people quarreling over their right* to open each other's letters. This does not Imply, as It might seem to. that the husband Is cherishing a deep, dark secret that his wife would be liable to discover If she tampered I with his mall, nor Is It an Indication thnt ttie wife Is recelvjng surreptitious billet-doux from some other gentleman.! In the letters of neither will there be I anything of a private or compromising ' nature, but, nevertheless, they both | want to get their mall Inviolate, and It enrages them to have It opened and i read. . j' work will begin within n few days This lawyer estimates' that of all on the new Bijou theater to be erected BEGINS AT ONCE AT a general way. the following eub-com- mtttees were appointed by Chairman Correll: Jin location—W. S. Wardlaw. J. J. Hobby and W. P. Harding. On Invitations—W. B. Correll, H. L. Bails. J. Gtddlsh, C. H. Brown and W. H. Grant. On Program—W. S. Wardlaw, Eu gene L. Downs, W. P. Harding. On Music—R. A. Taft, Fred J. Ter ry and H. A. Cobb. These committees will report to the general committee at a meeting to be held next Sunday afternoon In Feder ation hall. ' While the character of the entertain ment to be given has not been definite, ly determined. It Is proposed to. con clude the program, which will Include ■peaking, music and other features, with a dance, from 9:30 until mid night. TEXAS’ ATTITUDETOWARD BAILEY. In a Democratic state like Georgia the political fate of a great party leader like Bailey, of Texas, Is a matter of more than ordinary concern. .What will Texas do with Joe Bailey, the ablest of Democratic sena tors, and the most eloquent of Democratic leaders savo one? We do not know at this distance, but the Houston Post which we have long accredited as the ablest and fairest patter In the Done Star State, has Issued a public statement from which we extract some news and some oplnioni that will be of general Interest throughout the Demo cratic South. Says the Post: First, let It be kqown that there Is not the slightest proba bility of Senator Bailey’s defeat. The so-called "revelations” have been carefully weighed by the people and the membera of the legislature and up to this time more than 100 of 163 members tgave stated explicitly that they will vote for Senator Halley's re-election. Of those who have not so declared, more than one-half are friendly to hint. It Is improbable that more than two dozen members will ogst their ballots against him. The light on him. therefore, amounts to nothing so far. as his re- election Is concerned. This does not imply that the fact of his borrowing money from H. C. Pierce Is Indifferently regarded. On the contrary. It Is not. It was a mistake—a serious, but not a dishonest one. Bai ley's record in the senate Is proof enough that he bartered no influence for Die accommodation extended him. Every vote and every speech show an unswerving fidelity to bis trust. Tbe mon ey was paid back to the lender, and nt the time of the transac tions, antedating his service In tbe senate, there was no reason to stisiiect that Mr. Pierce was remotely connected with Stand ard Oil. Tbe fact that Pierce transferred these business trans actions to bis company may disclose crafty motives on the part of pierce, but Pierce himself testifies that they were, as Bailey understood them, purely personal transactions. In the absence of taint upon his honor, Texas will not dis credit and destroy so superb a figure as Senator Bailey merely for a business Indiscretion. She will retain him aa a worthy ex ponent of her proudest traditions, jttst as Webster and Clay are yet remembered for their genius while the spltefnl asaults upon them and tbe trivial errors they made are forgotten. All of which reads singularly In accord with a letter aent to The Geor gian aa editorial correspondence front Paris, Texas, four weeks ago. Bailey wlll.be forgiven hla Indiscretion, and will resume his place alongside of Tillman as a Democratic leader of the senate. married eouptes 90’ per cent have perpetual disagreement and spat on the letter opening question, and of these a surprisingly large number go on from bad to worse until they land In the dl- vorre court*. An Offense Against Good Manners. The statement thnt such n trivial thing as meddling with another per son's mull could slay love and part fond hearts and break up homes sounds absurd until one brings the question home to one'* self. Then the most patient, the most meek and the most forbearing of us are bound to admit that there is nothing else on earth that Is so enraging and Infuriating and makes one feel so much like committing murder on the spot ns to have some body open our letters, somebody rend them before we have seen them, some body skim off all the little cream of anticipation and wonder and curiosity that Is on the top of even the poorest letter. It Is one of the offenses against good manners and good taste that It Is Im possible to forgive, tor It Is a thing thnt Is done with premeditation and malice' aforethought, amt there can only be one single solitary excuse for It—where a man or woman really sus pects'the other purty of having com mitted some crime, and is trying to get evidence enough to holster up a plea for divorce. In families—for the open ing of other people’s letters la not a crime exclusively contlned to matrimo ny—there can be no possible justifica tion for the offense. Home- Wrsoklng Secret. A letter Is a private affair, it Is a matter of honor between the one who wrltee It and the one who receives It. The confidences that you write John are not Intended for his brother Harry, that you loath nnd despise, nor Ills cat-like sister Mary, nor his gossip ing old mother. The self-reservations that you do not hesitate to make to Helen are not designed to be perused by her slaters and her cousins and her aunts, nnd yet In only too many families everybody's letters are consid ered common property, and the one who reaches the postman first has no hesitation In breaking the seals nnd scattering their contents to the winds. But the real reason thnt husbands and wives uuarrel over the opening of letters whose contents might be pub lished to the world with Impunity, until they reach the dlvorcp court. Is because the assuming of the right to break the seal of a letter to another Is the sign and symbol of the great hoodoo of con nubial and family life. This Is the abo lition of personal liberty nnd personnl privacy. Here in a nutshell you have the one thing that makes domestic life intolerable, that breaks up homes nnd rends families * asunder oftener than anything else. The Tyrants of the Hearthstone. Abstractly we all kngw thle. We all know that oar forebears fought and died nnd bled for liberty. We know thnt they dared every danger and every hardship to seek freedom, nnd yet we cainnot understand that the sume spirit Is with ua yet, and that the one thing that we cannot endure, nnd will not endure, is to bow the neck to the yoke *1 slavery, whether It he po litical or domestic. Yet there are no tyrants so grinding nnd so pitiless as the tyrants of the hearthstone, and It Is because the most of us spend our lives fighting these thnt the home becomes a battleground Instead of the temple of peace It was meant to be. Oh, there Is no use In denying It. You know It ts true. So do I. Which of us, unless w-e have put a thousand miles between us and our husband or wife, or nearest of kin, has a single, solitary, unabridged right to do as we please, without comment, argument or suggestion? None. It takes the average innn and woman who lives at home forty years of solid, uninterrupted scrapping to teach their parents that they have a right to open letters first, but never, not If they live to be a million years old. do they ever attain the privilege of not having to tell the contents. The married are even more unfortunate In this respect, according to the expert opinion of the divorce lawyer whose opinion I have quoted, A Right to This Privilege. As for going out or coming In, who at Carnegie way and daln street by [ the Wells Amusement Company, and the completion will be pushed In an ef fort'to have the play house reajly for occupancy In June. It was originally Intended to produce plays In this house before the end of 190», but the theater furnishing people could not flit their contracts. Jake Wells, manager of the Bijou circuit, passed through Atlanta Sun day. He has Just visited his theaters In Memphis, Chattanooga. Mobile, Montgomery and Birmingham. His new houses have Just been opened at Evansville and Chattanooga and much time has been spent In getting them ready for the public. The Atlanta the ater will show considerable Improve ment In the line of amusement houses. QO0Q0O0O0000QQ000D0000000O O 0 0 CARRIE NATION SPEAKS <3 O AT MEN ONLY MEETING. O O 0 O Roanoke, Va., Dec. 24.—Carrie 0 O Nation, the Kansas saloon smash- 0 O er, delivered ,two addresses here 0 0 In Assembly hall yesterday to 0 0 men only, both meetings being 0 0 well attended. Mayor Cutchln and O O other city officials occupied front 0 0 seats. Mrs. Nation spoke along 0 0 her usual lines In condemning to- 0 0 bacco and whisky,* but devoted her O 0 time principally to vice. 0 a o 00O0000000000000O000O0000O FIGHTING MARBLE FOR POSTOFFICEi T GRANITE A nyntematic effort In being made by those Interested to have Atlanta's proposed 11,000,000 postoffice built of granite instead of Georgia marble. Pe tliions are.being circulated among the business men of the city to secure sig natures to this emj and will be sent to Washington. It is understood that an effort will also be made to shut out the marble bidders from making estimates on the •work. It Is said that many of the people who have «igned the petitions have done so to get rfd of the can vanser during the rush season without considering the Importance of the move. "I think It preposterous.” said an of ficial Saturdaj', “thut anyone should be so unthoughtful as to assist such a movement. The public building can be built of Georgia marble, the prettiest building material In the world'and the quarries right here at our doors. It would be a disgrace to use anything else. '*The people who have signed these petitions must have forgotten the num bers of public buildings built in distant states of Georgia marble. They even pay high freight rates In order to se^ cure the material from this state. The marble Is even nearer Atlanta than the granite. It was originally intended to build the postoffice of marble, and some effort ought to be made to offset the efforts of tho^e who do not seem to have the Interest of the city at heart.” GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. labors In New York today: ATLANTA-N. II. Ilouefleld. C. Borg, K. Is. DHunmtcr, C. B. Greer. J. L. Greer. K. If. Jonee, >1. F. Owens, K. C. Hnynor, (!. 1>. Smith. H. Stowe. I. Bacsquer, N. Levy, K J. Levy, C. W. Phillips, M. Stein. DR. LINGLE COMES FOR FIRST SERMON doing so without having to tery of the third degree? "Whore have you been? How long did you stay? Was that the only place you went? Who did you see? What did they say? What made you go?" etc., etc., ad In finitum. Now. I respectfully submit that every grown man or woman has a right to his or her own mutt, and to go and come a* they please without having 'o render tui account to their families, and If the family could only be brought to this point of view domestic life wouldn’t be tpe life term sentence of Imprisonment that It now t*. The parents who catechise their chil dren. the husband* who spy upon their wives 1 letters, the wives that call time on their husbands unit make them ac count tor every minute, are outraging the sense of Individual liberty and pri vacy tbnt Is the birthright of every human being, and are driving the ones they would hold away from them. ••Give me liberty or give me death” 10 still the heart cry of every one of Rev. W. L. Llngle will preach at the First Presbyterian church on Decem ber 30 at the morning service, and the Indications are that a large congrega tion will hear him. It will be remem bered that the First Presbyterian church extended a unanimous call to Dr. Llngle to succeed Rev. C. P. Bride well, and while he has not yet given an answer, the fact that he Is going to preach la looked forward to with con siderable interest. At present Dr. Lin gle Is pastor of the' Presbyterian church at Rock Hill, S. C., and every effort Is being mode by his congrega tion there to have him remain. DO0O000000O00000000O0O0000 O OF A PER80NAL NATURE. ° O 0000000000000000000000000a STltAU8—Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Straus will have what la said to be the finest house ever offered for rent In Wash ington. It Is In Slxtqpnth street, north, ward from the white house. JOLIKE—Adrian H. Jollne, the new president of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad, besides a great rail road man, has written a number of books, Including "The Diversions of a Hooklover." OSCAR—King Oscar of Sweden, in his seventy-eighth year, discusses problems In mathematics and litera ture and indulges In the gentle art of writing sonnets with much of the ar dency of hta earlier years. ((MMH4HMIIH4MMMMMI9M9I494IMMIIM CHEERFULNESS. By LANDON CARTER. J SCHAEFFER—Rev. John Schaeffer, of North Benton, obio, lias Just cele brated his one hundred and first birth day. He Is the oldest clergyman fn Ohio, and possibly In the United States. He preached regularly for sixty years and has lived In his present home for ten years longer. He reads newspa pers without glasses and has hardly been III a day in his life. COTTON ASSOCIATION ELECTS NEW OFFICERS. Special to The Oeorglan I aG range. Ga., Dec. 24.—.Troup County Cotton Association held Its an nual election of officers for the ensuing year Saturday evening. The officers elected were: Colonel J. E. Dunson, president: C. D. Hudson, vlee .presi dent. and N. R. Hutchinson, secretary' and treasurer. State delegates for the convention were also selected, aa fol lows: Colonel Booker, of West Point: Judge F. M. Longley. of LaGrange, and J. D. Cooper, of Hogansvllte. At the conclusion of the election of officers Field Agent E. D. Smith, of Columbia. S. C, delivered one of hi* characteristic add mestic tyrant would rather give us death or divorce than even the privl- iia. and tbe pity of tt Is that the do-' lege of opening our own letters. (Copyright, 1908, by Amerlcan-Journal- Examtner.) With eome cheerfulness ts an Inborn quality, but generally speaking It Is perhaps more to be attributed to early, sympathetic and pleasant surroundings, and although it Is largely a matter of temperament, still, In the fact that through cultivation It may become pos. ■Iblo to all, there should be a general feeling of encouragement—and what more worthy of cultivation? for It not only makes life more desirable from every standpoint, but from a practical point of view It Is an Invaluable as set. Through lack of sympathy and cheer- fulness one becomes Irritable, self-cen tered and depressed, and from which characteristics probably arise more cases of nervous prostration and nerv ous dyspepsia than do contagious dis eases from contact. Happiness Is not confined to eny par ticular localtles, but, like atmosphere, It Is all around ua. and while conditions may affect the degrees of our pleas ures nnd make their expression more difficult, stIU they cannot absolutely submerge so long as the spirit of cheer fulness exists within us. One’s habit of thought greatly Influ ences the disposition. Just as through persistent cultivation almost anything may become possible, and Just as life, If continually viewed "through a glass darkly," wilt only present gloom, sor row, worry and exaggerate the trou bles of life, so ulso will clear lenses picture proportionate Joys, comforts and many forms of good fortune. Cheerfulness does not mean number, les* enjoyments crowded Into a life's space, but In the depth of our appre ciation and power* to enjoy. The cheerful person may make him self a pleasure, a necessity, a luxury, whereas the pessimist may become equally a nuisance to himself and all with whom he corn,* In contact. It haa been said by a well-known physi cian that depression perceptibly weak ens the pulse. Think, then, of what Incalculable .value cheerfulness could be at such a time. Irritableness should be considered a private misfortune, and when made known to the public It be come* the height of Indelicacy—even u disgrace. How much In the world there la that beautiful, good and praiseworthy, and even If at times those blessings seem allotted to us In minor propor- tlons, we can certainly merit no possi ble benefit or healthy enjoyment by de crying our fhtes nnd belittling with envy thff better fortune of our nelgh- By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER. New York. Dec. 24.—About the ble- gest Christmas present I've heard about Is that which la coming to the | an< j owner In the suburbs, who. It Is con servatlvely estimated, will get a Christ, mas present of $375,000,000. This money Is represented bv the total advance In land values during •he past year.. In the distribution Ji5°o?X 0 ’ 000 has gone t0 Brooklyn. . 000,000 to Queens, $60,000,000 to the Bronx and Westchester, t7S.ooo.ono L the New Jersey suburbs, $20,000,000 to Nassau and Suffolk and $10,000,000 to Richmond. Land owners who have held thete properties during the year can add the full proportionate share of the year 1 * Increase to their assets. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish has Issue,| | n . citations for a series of dinner.! December gS. January 9 and 24. Miss Helen Cannon Is In socleti's spot light now as the apostle of hltt'. k and white for occasions of state. Time was when the speaker's inv.iv daughter blossomed like Elizabeth's German garden In violets, yellows blues, pinks and many other ii,„ ,j shades. At a banquet In Senator Banks' home recently Miss Cannon regal fn a trained gown of lusterie-s chiffon cloth, the skirt full all urnon.l and absolutely untrlmmed. The corsage showed a novel und he. coming effect. belhg made of the ,|,„h which was cut low. back and front ataI came to the waist line to fit snuglv n, , perfectly fitted wide belt. Under the corsage was a waist t rream thread lace. Another exquMtt gown of Miss Cannon's Is of white panne velvet with three shades ,,r Ing on the skirt and covering the en tire bodice. Miss Helen Tuft, the only daughter of Secretary of War and Mrs, Tuft In Washington for the Christmas holi day*. She Is a student at Bryn Mawr Pa. If a bill Introduced In the senate by Senator Gallinger, of New Hampshire, becomes a law, former Senator H. \v Blair, of New Hampshire, will receive a pension of $73 it month. Senator Blnlr puts In a great deal of Ills time In Washington In tile law business, in. record ts such that It Is likely t,.ti gress will see fit to allow hint » pen sion. He had a peculiarly .gullnot record tn the civil war, rising front private to lieutenant colonel. He was severely wounded and could have drawn thousands.of dollars in pension money had he applied at once after the clgse of the war. He never tins asked for a pension, however, and has never received' one. He Is now ad vanced In years und under the circum stances will probably be given an al lowance by the government. With the return home of Miss Marv Reany, a prominent Detroit aoctety girl, daughter of the late Henry Reaney nnd sister of Father William Reany, formerly known as Admiral Dewey's chaplain, the last chapter ..f her sensational elopement with Martin ulnn, formerly of the Central detec- re bureau, comes to a close. Quinn was a married man. and had been paying clandestine attentions fo the girl for some time, and the elopement early last, month first came to light with the receipt of Quinn's resignation. The mother and sisters of the girl insisted that she hud not gone away with the detective and that she was 111 tn bed, but It was learned positively that the pair hud boarded a train together for Chicago. They fivandered west and «ent through a marriage ceremony at Win nipeg, Manitoba. Through the Inter vention of Bishop Muldoon. Miss Reany was reclaimed by her family after their return to Chicago. Qutnn ls now In Denver and Is writing for his deserted wife to cotne to him. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. DECEMBER 24. 1114—Treaty of Ghent ln*twe«n Grout Brit, nln nnd America signed. 1838— London and Greenwich railway. rtr»t Hue lu Isoudon, opened. 1856—Hugh Miller, famous Kugllih eulo gist, committed suicide. Born I*".’. 1S64— First Umilmrdment of Fort Flsliur. 1H69—Kdwln M. "Stanton died. 1872—Barnum'a museum. New York city. atroyed by fire. 1888-Dr. Charles Mnckay. English author and aong writer, died. 1880—Isaae Hawtelle convicted at Dover. N. II.. of murder of hla brother Wrnm. 1481—t’olllalon on Hudson IUver rallmnd nt Hastings. N. Y.. lu which fourteen por tion* were killed. « Where the Georgia Delegation Live in Washington. SENAT0R8. Augustus O. Bacon, 1767 Oregon avenue. A. S. Clay, the Normandie. CONGRESSMEN. W. C. Adamson, tha Oxford. C. L. Bartlett, the Shoreham Thomas M. Bell, the Iroquois. W. G. Brantley, the Chapin. T. W. Hardwick, the Shoreham. W. M. Howard, th* Bancroft. Gordon Lee, the Shoreham. E. B. Lewis, the Metropolitan. J. W. Overstreet, the Metropoli tan. L. F. Livingston, 1916 Blltmoi. street. J. M. Griggs, the Metropolitan. hors. A cheerful countenance Is a wonder, ful advertisement, for It always Insures welcome, whether In domestic or bust, ness circles, and from a material point of view. It Is a splendid capital, for It excite, patronage and the general friendship of the public, whereas the man who indulges In morbidness and pessimism Is apt to be correspondingly unpopular Dwell upon the Infinite meaning of cheerfulness and the utter futility of depression. Cheerful help brings more material results than mere almsgiving, and. like melodies, when once set afloat, brighten the world. All would do well to remember an Italian motto, which means that "If all cannot live on plazxas, every one may at least feel the sun.” Having failed to persuade the New York board of education to stop the celebration of Christmas in the public schools, rabbis and other Hebrews have decided to call a strike of school chil dren of their race. Rules for Automobile Gue.n Always tell your host that his is Hi* finest machine you ever rode In. Ask him If It isn’t the be«t max. thefe Is. Say'you thought so when he say* yes. Ask h,'m what really makes It *■>. Listen while he tells you. Ask him If he Isn't going very Express surprise when he says tti* machine 1* merely getting wartm.l up and fer you to wait. Remark that autotnoblllng l» the p e- try of motion. , „ And that you never before knew what it meant to reiflly. live. And that you feel an exquisite, in explicable elation. Admire hi* motoring get-up. i Tell hint how well he looks In auto mobile togs. Ask him if you may, suggest a w - for hts machine. , Ask him what are the spark plus* Ask him how to spell carburetei Express no surprise at his repo Say that'you would be afraid to *■ as fast If anyone els* were drtvlnr Ask to huve all the parts In explained to you. Inquire minutely about the other- Introduce no subject save ant" biles. ' Disparat e all others and pr*/*', one you're ln.- otners ana c-y , Carolyn Well*, in Lit*