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•THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. CBMBBU T„ 19'*. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN •■tn Ttum citvts. un* r. i. uur. huuttr. Published Every Afternoon 'Except Suodej) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY. At 3 Writ Alabama St, Attests, Ge. Subscription Rats*. nee Veer Six Month, AJJ Tbrre Month*...... 54* By Cerrler. Per Week n K It le desirable tbtt ell roamenlra- flees In traded (or peMIcftloa la TUB GEORGIAN be limited to MO words le Si B mee will be withheld It iectrd eraenecrlpte will not be ret a reed uoleso stamps ere eeet fee (be purpose. TUB GKOROIAW does It print KS&g whisky or soy liquor sill. ..ftM.Vr^I.W.W'.t.W. end electric tlxbt plant*. es It now owns Its interwork*. other cities do SftfVB CUTJe be dees et oece. The Grorgtes be- lleree thet If street rsllweye cee be epensted sracrssf ully by Rorepees cities, ee they ere. there le oo food why thin cannot he ee operated But we co not bellere tele cee • sew. sod It mey be some years we era reedy fer so bid ee an- lag. Still Atlanta ebould set IK (ere le That direction NOW. How Georgia and Alabama Grow. A striking presentation anil an ex cellent advertisement of the Industrial development and construction prog ress In Georgia and Alabama Is given In this week’r Issue of The Georgia aad Alabama Industrial Index, In which appears a concise summary of advance reports printed In The index during the last half of 1MM. During that period The Index has reported for Alabama 222 new corpo rations with a total minimum capital Stock of 110,5(2,200 and for Georgia 2917, with a total minimum capital stock of 110,778,900. These flgurc . do not Include banks and railroads. Oth er totals of new Industries and con et ruction given arp as follows: Banka lllnurrlre IB Ice ptnuts f l.lxbt plant* IX l.aoibrr pinnla 43 OH mllla 7 « I'onrsr plant" 14 llallrnstl* 7 Electric mllwaya ja StrnmlNNtt linen X Telephone linen.. 17 t’otinn mill* menu I. • 'Mina mllla fenlarxem’ini. 4 Knlulax mllla II I ’llIIillIIc rnctorle" 3 Ala. Iln. Total. Brick pTauts.... iVinent ptanta X racking plnnta Ksrtlllin-r plnnta t I'uruneea 4 Psqadrii-s 5 Gna puma 4 t'operate block plnnla l Lass, Iris* ... i Kurnltura (aeiorlea Naval atnrea .plnnta r, New urining opera Ilona ... pi Machine aknpa. I.. 6 mfc; 1 Three alorlea 37 WBRStt::::::::::::::::: 5 alt ttorlea l Seven atorlra 1 Eight alorlea x Tea ttorlea 3 fifteen atortec I t'owrt bouaen a Jalla Meet bridge*.. ■P .. £ci Miidinn.:::: Taring eoaatraetlon waterworks 13 i, Of this summary The Index says: ."At large and significant aa are these figures, they convey but partial Idea of the great development In the two statei during the pant hair year. Many Industrial plants, comparative ly small In number and varied tn char acter, are not Included In the above summary. Neither do the figure* In themselves Indicate the extent of In vestment. For Instance, the three ce- meat plants reported represent total Investments of nearly |3.0f)0,000. In business buildfnga nothing smaller than a three-story structure U given front the many of smaller slxe report ed in The Index, though many of the latter are costly, aa in the case or a 3160,000 one-story beak building pro jected In a Georgia city." A Philadelphia paper runs half a column headed "Christmas Tragedies In the South." A full page Is devoted to the same kind of occurrences In Philadelphia. Those fellows who tried to "get next" to the president by sending him Christmas presents will be somewhat Jarred when the packages come back unbroken. Aunt Ella Marks, aged lit years. Is Mill complacently smoking hei pipe In ier New York home. Just cited aa an Incident of Interest and not to (mint a Moral. One can now get telephone connec tion with a moving train. Irate pas- rangers down thin way on related .rains will probably avail themselves >Mhe opportunity to call up the head 1 say some real tuUnil A Pittsburg paper, says that the Smokey City la the moat God-fearing, moral place In the country. , News, that, sure. From a recent perusal of papers people bad Just the other kind of Impreaslon about It. Here’s another scandal for Senator Bailey to combat. Item in a paper says "Senator Bailey ha* purchased the fast Miss Edgar." It la proper hbwever, to explain that “Mies Edgar” Is a race horse. ANSWER “THE TECH'S” APPEAL NOW. We trust that no good citizen who loves Atlanta will fall to consider the appeal which The* Georgian makes for Atlanta’s great and famous school. The School of Technology must have the two'adjacent lota which It needs for absolutely essential buildings and enlargement. It must have those lots before next Tuesday noon, or the opportunity will be lost. The Georgian has backed its faith by its works and has given aa liber ally aa It could to the cquM. If The Georgian's capacity was equal to ita inclinations we would put our hands Into our pockets and contribute the wholt amount rather than hava the Tech miss this rapidly passing oppor tunity. * Wo are proud of the Technological School. Wo are proud of tho fame it had two years ago. We are proudor of the much greater fame it has to day. There It no school like It In the South. There are few schools as good anywhere. We* like to boast of it when we go abroad. We like to use it as the argument to Induce now men to come to Atlanta where Its great facilities may be enjoyed. We know how many people It does bring to Atlanta and to Georgia. We are proud of the one hundred and twenty-five Atlanta boys who are turned out every year from the Tech superbly equipped for practical usefulness and auecosa In the world. We are proud of the splendid rein forcement which It brings to the scientific and industrial davelopmont of tho city and the South. We are proud of the princely contribution of one hundred thousand dollars which It makes every year to the pay rolls of At lanta. \ Wa don’t wish tho Tech to stop growing. We don't wlah our groat school to bo hindered and retarded, for lack of room, or to bt refused by the city which It honors when it state* a plain necessity Ilka this. Atlanta Is rich enough to'glva the $44100 needed by the Tech with out a moment’s hesitation. It Is rich enough to do this If It were a poorer city than it la. It la rich enough at any time to do It. It it especially rich enough now in thla period of superb prosperity, and tn the full flush of thla radiant and ovtrflowlng aeason. Now, citize‘ns of Atlanta, you who road theta lines and know them to bo true—you who lovt and honor Goorgla’a great School and Atlanta’s chlaf ornament, follow tho Impulse that la In your mind straight and man fully to your pockat, and sand a contribution aa liberal aa your purie can make It, to thla hour of tho Tech’s opportunity and necessity. Don't wait, but do ft now. Do It heartily and do It quickly. You will not have done a worthier thing in all this holiday. LET THE RAILWAY COMMISSIONS INFORM US. No morn Important question has confronted the business and Indus trial Interests of this country In many a year than the conditions of freight aud passenger tramqioitatioii on the railroads. We have had In part an explanation from tue railroads of these conditions. We have all of us reached some conclusions of our own. and have onr own Individual views as to the causes of this unfortunate con- ditlon and the remedy. ■ Is It not time now thnt the state and Interstate railway commission* to which we look for authentic Information and for effective remedy of transportation evils, should give this matter some careful Investigation and oblige the public with a statement from their standpoint of the causes of the present demoralization of our railway systems and of the remedy? We are familiar enough with the lamentable conditions which pre vail in the South anil In the Southwest, and with the tremendous Incon veniences which are entalled ii|>on business and upon pleasure by these conditions. v Perhaps, however, onr troubles may lie made to appear more beara ble by a knowledge of the suffering that Is entailed upon our neighbors and fellow citizens in the fy Northwest. It seems sn amazing and almost monstrous thing that in the year of our most bountiful prosperity people with plenty of money in their pockets should he absolutely suffering with cold for lack of fuel. And yet this Is exactly the caae In Kansas and the Northwest, where many well-to-do lieopls are In actual danger of freezing beeause the coal hauling service of the railroad* has broken down completely. The Georgian has planted Itself upon the plane of conaervatism and of helpfulness with every right thing which the railroads are doing or may do to relieve these conditions. But we would really like to know from some authoritative source whether or not It Is through Inefficient management that manufacturers, merchants, farmers aud shippers of grain, live slock and cotton, from one end of the country to the Other, are suffering dally losses on account of 'the so-called ear shortage, or whether the rallmad* have become wholly aud hopelessly Inadequate to move the traffic of the country. There Is no necessity to abuse or to vilify. Here abuse aud ultra- crltlclsm do no good. But perhaps It all the available sources of Informa tion and remedy are brought together, we can by uniting our energies In a helpful and cooperative way make at least .some little progress in And- Ing the remedy for n situation which Is growing appalling to the country. GEORGIA GRANITE AND MARBLE FOR THE P0ST0FFI0E. Let It be understood that the Georgian la taking no aides In the con troversy between the marble and granite material to be used In the splendid building which Is to house Atlanta's next poatofllce. The Georgian has In previous local comment given so much of Impor tance to the granite Industry that the marble quarry men have grown ap prehensive that public opinion was being carried altogether In that di rection. The Georgian stands Impartial and admiring between these two state ly and splendid products of our imiierlal state. Georgia Is rich both lu granite and in marble for the construction of any building no matter what Its slxe or Importance may be. whether for public use or for the gratification of private taste. Our granite quarries are rich about us. In the splendid county of DeKall^ we have two mountains, one large and one small, made of granite, that la lit to build the cities of the world. In Plckeus and In other counties to the north of us we have marble whose itueneaa and polish would adorn the finest buildings of the country. And. so far from taking sides between these splendid products, The Georgian recognizes that both ot them are necessary for the public bulldlnga of the future. We sincerely trust that Senators Bacon and Clay and Congressman Livingston will diligently see to It when the material I* chosen for the construction of the government’ postofflee In Atlanta, that the granite of Ita walls and the marble of Ita finishing! shall come from the state whose capital this beautiful national building will adorn. * These beautiful products of Georgia have already been sent to the adornment and growth o9other cities and other states. The granite of DeKalb has Its place In scores of public buildings that are admired the country over, and the marble In the various quarries of Georgia has fur nished the adornment for beautiful buildings tn as many states. RECORD OF WHAT A YEAR HAS WROUGHT Notable Events During 1906 in the. Principal Lines of Interest DISASTERS. January. exoloslou lu the Con Ida le mine neai Him* field, w. Vh.. kills 21 men. One bun urea persons perlsb In n burning mine st Akltit. Japan. I-Ttwawt house* st flsTerstraw, X. V., fall Into n elsjnplt. where lire complete* *£• destruction. Twenty live* lost. 19—Flre In West Hotel. Minneapolis, de stroys nine llres. 18—Eighteen persons-killed by a mine expip* slim nt Detroit W. V«. Eighteen negcoes killed and twenty hurt during « lire pnule In a colored church of Philadelphia. 22— Brasilian turret ahlp Aquidahan Is sunk by a powder magazine explosion on lionnl; 215 killed, Tnrlndlng three, rear admirals. 23— Steamer Valencia goes nabore on Vnn- courer Islnud const: 118 persons drmtn. 24— Fourteen lives lost In n mine explosion near Pntcati. I. T. 31—hnrtbquuke and ttdnl wave ou the const of ColomhtA and Ecuador destroy bun dreds of lives. February. ^Society Islands devastated by n cyclone. *—Mine explosion nt Oak Hill. W. Va.. kills twenty-two men. -Deep mine nt Johannesburg. Transvaal, flooded: eigbty-flve men drown. Miss.; twenty of property i , fishing fleet scattered by storm: many ept away. Norwegian bunts with their crews lost. Suow avalanche buries fishermen's huts on Loftolen Islands; twenty-one persons killed nnd many Injured. 10— Has explosion in fonrrlere coal mine In Frame kills 1.212 men. 11— Mtenmet* British King founders In the North Atlantic: twenty-seven men were drowned. Two Denver and l(lo Grande passenger trains collide at Adobe, t'olo., killing twenty-two persons. 17—Formosa Islnud shaken by earthquake; 22—Gas exposition In Century mine. W. Va., kills twenty-six men. 28—Mine explosion nt Takasblma, Japan, kills 2S0 men. 30r-Thlrtee» miners at I#enz. France, escape after being entombed twenty days. April. S-Ilall at Magold, In the Black' Forest of Germans. collapses, killing forty-uine 8—Vesuvius fu eruption; villages destroyed nnd many lives lost. 14— Powder exnloslon In the turret of the battleship Kearsarge kills nine meu. 18—8au Francisco partly destroyed by earth quake nnd tire, Congress appro , relief of Ban Francisco. 22—Dust explosion kills twenty-two Japan ese and Italians In a Colorado Fuel and Irou Company mine. 28—Tornado nearly destroys Bellevue, Tex'.; eleven lives lost. May. 4—Tvfo IVnnsrlvahln railroad trains collide at Clover Creek Junction. l»a.. killing ten persons. 18— Forest fires devastate parts of Wisconsin and tipper Mlchlgsn. June. 3— Eleven killed In a trolley upset at Prov idence, R. I. 9—Explosion In a dynamite plant at I’e- qnca. Pa., blows eleven persous to frag ments. July. 1—English express tralu derailed at Salis bury. killing tweuty-seveu persons., 3— Runaway mine car uear Portage. Pa.. kills eleven men before It Is wrecked. Xt. Michaels church, Hamburg, bums. 16— Earthquake shakes' up the Itio Grande * valley In Now Mexico and Texas. 22—Henlionrd Air IJae passenger train wrecked by collision near Hamlet. N. P.; several trainmen aud mauy negroes 8 killed. August. 4— Italian steamship 8lrlo wrecked by a reef off Horulngas island. Spain; 300 emigrants drown. 18— Chilean cities of Santiago and Val paraiso partly destroyed by earthquake nnd fire. September. 12—Tu »lve persons killed in a Canadian Pa cl fir wreck near Sudbury, Out. 18—Typhoon nt Hougkoug deatroys thou sands of lives and damages much ship- is-6'S, Northern train wrecked at Grant ham. Kug.; ten killed. 21— Explodou of n carload of dyuamite at Jelllco, Trail., kills twelve persons. 24—In the capsizing of n Insit lu the rlv Indus. Imils. 170 persons drowu. 27— Disastrous burrlcsife? sweeps through the Honthern states from the gulf. October. 3— Explosion iu the West Fork mine of the Pocahontas Collieries Company, W Va.. eutombn seveuty-flve men. 9—Mexican floods destroy 122 llres. 18— French subuiarlue lioct. with a ere fourteen, disappears. 19— Hurricane devastates Havana, parts of Cuba. Florida nud Central America; linn dreds of lives destroyed. 28— Ten persons jicriih In the homing of the Chamber of Commerce bulldlug lu Kan sas City. Kau. 28— Pennsylvania electric train drops through n drawbridge at Atlautic City ’ sixty-two drown. Novsmbsr. 4—Existence of famine lu Klang-Su prov ince. China, reported. 8—Hamilton. Ohio, visited by 1* 81.000,000 Are. 12— la a Baltimore and Ohio train collision near Wot>dville. IimI.. forty-seven pas* seugers perish. llug or wounding 900 per- '—Canadian steamer J. H. Jones founders In Georgian bay with twenty-eight |ier- sons. 28— Itobult factory at Auneui. Germany, blows up, klllli * ““ — sons. Decsmbar. 1—Earthquake shakes Sicily. 7—Four studeuU and three cltlxeus perlsb in a Cornell Pulveralty Are. 19—Mississippi Hteamlioat W. T. -Xcovell blows up near Done Landing. Miss.; six teen live* bm. 23—In a collision on the Minneapolis. 8t. President Roosevelt Issues n proclama tion asking aid for Chinese famine suf ferers. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX THE SPUR (Copyright. 1906. by Amerlcan-Journal-Examiner. 'I asked tho rock beside tho road what Joy existence lent. It answered, "For a Million years my heart has been content.’* I asked the truffle-necking swine, as rooting by he went, “What la the keynote of your IJfe?” . He grunted out, “Content.*’ I Asked a slave, who tolled and sang. Just what his singing meant. He plodded on his chnngelesa way, and said, “I am content.’* I asked a plutocrat of greed, on what his thoughts were bent. He chinked the silver In his purse, and said. “I am content.’* I asked the mighty forest tree from where Its force was sent. Its thousand branches spoke as one, and said, “From discontent.” I asked the message speeding on, by what great law was rent God’s secret from the waves of space. It said* "From discontent.” I asked the marble, where the works of God and man were blent. What brought the statue from the block. It answered “Discontent.” I asked an Angel, looking down on ean|h with gaze Intent, How man ahould rise to larger growth. Quoth ho, “Through discon tent.” Where the Georgia Delegation Live in Washington. SENATORS. Augustus u. Bacon, 1757 Oregon avenue. A. S. Clay, the Normandie. , CONGRESSMEN. W. C. Adamson, the Oxford. C. L. Bartlett, the Shoreham. Thomas M. Bell, the Iroquois. \V. G. Brantley, the Chapin. T. \V, Hardwick, the Shoreham. W. M. Howard, the Bancroft. Gordon Lee, the Shoreham. E. B. Lents, the Metropolitan. J. \V. Overstreet, the Metropoli tan. L. P. Livingston, 1919 Blltmore street. J. M. Griggs, the Metropolitan. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. DECEMBER 27. A CHRISTMAS REVERY (Dedicated to those who are doomed to amoke the cigar* their wfves selected for them as t Christmas gift with acknowledgments to Kipling's pre-nuptial revery.) Open the new cigar box, now for a four-round bout, For this Is my Christmas present—the brand which my wife picked out. She knows that I'm stuck on Havanan—that I’m keen fra good cheroot; So now I suppose I must smoke them, or else she'll think I'm a brute. Open tlie new cigar box—facing iny wife's fond glance; I don't like to make her angry, but I den't like to take the chance. There’s peace 111 a Laranga and a Henry Clay, you'll agree. But the looka of thla "Bulldog Special” don't make any big hit with me. She says she knew I would like them, fur the band was so dainty and blue. With a touch of scarlet and purple and a, dark yellow streak running thru. Amt 1 haven't the heart to tell her—not even In manner quite bland— That I smoke a cigar for tobacco, and NOT for Us beautiful band. Here goes—and I light,with a shudder—I feel that my hair Is on (Ire:' And the wheels In my head start to whirling as the smoke dances higher und higher. I puff—it twists and unravels—I cough and I choke and I sneeze— While the taste In my mouth much resembles a mixture of onions and cheese. If I only knew what tt was made of! I detect a strong oilor of dope: There's a thick blend of cabbage and ether wrapped up In tlie colls of a rope. Oh. why did I take up t'nbacco? Oh, why did I learn how to smoke? A woman Is only a woman—but her cigars are a joke. —Grnntland Rice, In The Cleveland News. phla magistrate. "Come doyn from the North Pole, eh?" snorted the magls- Whatever the result flndlly Senator Foraker will know he has had a light when that Brownsville affair Is set tled. The Washington Herald declines to go off after fad*, even If fathered by President Roosevelt and Mr. Carnegie. It stand by the old "blue back speller.” In the tall timber. Is the Hon. Thomas Campbell, the outgoing gorerror; ex- Governor Joseph D. Savers, ex-Senator Roger Q. Mills, and Representatives Burleson and Burges*. This Is quite a hopeful Held, but irar- haps If might Ira well not to Ira too hopeful until Senator Bailey's caae Is dls posed V>f. Mail unusually heavy,” reads an Item in an exchange. No. not welgh- Ing-in time to fix the railroads' com pensation for carrying mall, but Juat the holiday rush. If Senator Bailey should be turned down by the legislature of Texas, It lets down the bars for a vigorous and hopeful field of “probabilities," each of whom Is ready and willing to as sume the responsibility of represent ing Ihc great slate of Texas In the senate o' the United States. Among A bogus Kris Kringle Imbibed too those dark horses champing their bits freely and landed before a Phitadel A Richmond police magistrate re leased ninety prisoners on Christmas Eve and the day after Christinas sev enty-live of them came back with a police escort. Turkey hash will last several days yet. Maybe Andrew Carnegie baa finally solved the problem of bow to keep from dying rich. He says he Is going Into politics. (rate. "Guess your steeds were about eight pontes of brandy, all right, all right.” Sounds like one of Recorder Broyles' remarks. Once upon a time as a Bout hem rail way passenger train rolled Into the station exactly on schedule time—Say, ain't that a fairy story proper? "Getting the mitten" doesn’t always mean a disappointed lover. A Maine girl gave a pair of "mittens" to a Glou cester Usher lad and got him for a' husband. Mutual Life policy-holders told Dis trict Attorney Jerome that there was no use of barring the stable after the horse had escaped. Better begin right now practicing writing Jt 1*07. Sams Officials Still Away. .Many of the capitol officials were back on duty Wednesday morning after one day's rest. Several others will be away for the rest of the week. Oov THE JAPANESE PERU..’ While one must recognize the Justice of the president's main contention, that Justice should be done Japan, his threat of force seems gratuitous. The courts have not yet passed upon the constitu tionality of the law under which San Francisco Is acting, there Is no rebel lion or serious disorder Ih California, anil the governor of that stale has made no suggestion of an inability to maintain an order which Is not even threatened. The president may- playing a deep diplomatic game. His vigorous promise of intervention has certainly pleased Japan, and If, as has been surmised, a treaty Is ih prepara tion looking lo setting limits upon the Immigration of Japanese coolies Into the United States und nt American workmen into Japan, it may have been dictated by wise policy, u Is to be hoped that such a t-eaty la to be something in the near .‘uture. Any one who has watched the recent high handed policy of Japan, has seen Its high-handed apnroprlation of Korea, and the antl-forelgn effect of her tute lage of China, cannot look without apprehension at the Inundation of Jap anese now sweeping Into the Philip pines nnd Hawaii.—Editorial In The World Today for January-. OUR MURDEROUS INDUSTRIALISM If the Cubed aisles were lo eagafo *n nually la war malting la a toes of S50, 000 Injured and killed, tbe entire eoontry would soon rise lu protest against surL senseless lots of tinman life. Rut. unknown to the average ettlsrn. s prneefnl wwrfsre, euisUIng a loss of over bslf stllllon In killed aud Injured le sn- islly being.waged In this eonntrr today, amt elves promise of eontiuning for some time to rome. This stupendous loss results from the 'ntense*stngg!e of 29.0iu.en) wage. Iv engaged In It la composed of Hie slurdy «w«y lor me rest or me ween, uov- p“i. iwo'S^iiov^l'ie 'famlK^'onb-de ernor Terrell enjoyed his Christmas • pendent apes Ms efforts for euppurt.-c. u. dinner quietly at the mansion. Mark. Is The World Today, for January. ethodlsts, horn. Died tteptemtier 30. 1770. 1811—More ttuin sixty person* perished In burning i hunter nt ttlehiuoiid. Va. 1828—Rowland Stephenson, English banker anil uiemlier of parliament, aharondetl with 81.000.000. 1831—Roger II. Tnnry, of Maryland. Iieem Attorney-lien,-nil of United State#. 1847—linko nr Norfolk horn. / 1S5S—New Ailelphl theater, Loudon, opem 1862—General Sherman attacked Fonfodu ate works about tls mile# (rom Vicks burg. 1892-Corner stone laid for Cathedral of 8t. John the Divine, New York city. THE~Y~iAR'i~~PROCE83ION. Borne who would view earth's many regions, roam, By toilsome Journey, over land, and I who, than they-, am wiser, rest at home, The while the world brings all Ita climes to me. Comes joyous Spring with wood and Held abloom; The thrifty- bee* seek out their hon eyed store; The orchard paths are spiced with rare perfume; Fair Florida Is smiling at my door. The buttercups bedeck th* hills with gold. The bluejay calls, the lusty robin sings; I look across th* landscape snd, be hold! The birds have brought the South land on their wings. Behind the Spring with her soft ver- durlng rain. Come* droughty Summer, mellowing the lands. Until 1 dream the fields of golden grain Are copies of Sahara's burning sands. The Autumn brings the fair Italian skies. • So sweetly blue, so boundless In ex panse; And In my vineyard where young Bac chus dyes III* purple grapes are glints of sun ny France. Then Winter comes, and In my snug domain Is left no sign ot Illy nr of rose And where, In Summer, dreamed poppled Spain, Lie* Labrador beneath her drifting snows. So. year by year, the seasons bring to ine Their many moving picture* that un roll In ever-changing views that I may see The Earth from Its equator to the pole. —Nixon Waterman In Appleton's. SOUTHERN PROPERTY VALUES. An a matter of record of increasing prosperity In the-South, the following table of estimated true value of prop erty there In 1900 and 1*04, complied by the Manufacturers' Record from a but. letln of the national census bureau is of Interest: 1900 iso* Alabama. .3 774,682.671 3 965,016 261 Arkansas... ihl4.21»,21L 803,907 972 Florida. . . .155.762,969 611.609400 Georgia. .. 936.00i),650 L167.666.671 Kentucky. 1,365.130.718 1,527,686.230 Louisiana. . 816.158,003 1.032,221006 Maryland. . 1,217,372,858 1,511,681 172 Mis* 557.581,563 . 898.269.022 N. Caro. .. 681.982,120 862.072 211 8. Caro. . . 686.678.068 585.858,222 Tenn. . . . 958,872,000 1,106,223 871 Texas. . . 2,322,151,031 2.836422.032 Virginia. . 1.102.309.6*6 14874761(0 W. Va. . . *59,852.551 660.000,16* t GOSSIP! By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER New York. Dec. 27.—Whe-, Pauline Morton becomes Mr? 'r n 1 kins Smith In New York city tendant* will Include two wL ,„ ? u belles MIS* Mathll.le To^! 1 ?* , »» Miss Katherine Elkins. Mls.« «p„?, n 1 seems to cling to Washington '! y she spends about a third of hir ' fl [ ’ r the capital. She is a favorib , ? Mrs. Roosevelt. The, wedding »IH lh record-breaker. Car' loads of Washington mu for a number of guesu ,1 eluding Mrs. M. W. Wilson and Udv ed a 7he d 'fohl« r,, | tm ?K decorat *onfi aili.rn- ed the table, In the center of iviu, h was a large white tree made to lot,I „ If It were covered with Ice, and at ii.e corners of the table were small Chrk-i mas trees. . i neeiflli?* 1 "’•"’her*' wives are already ai ranging for the list of women ivy> will assist them at their reception ,in New Year's day. Secretary anil Mil. Root 'will give their first diplomat v banquet on that day, when out-of-town guests will be with them. Certain of the new fur Jackets arc lie. Ing greedily snapped up. for they ire decidedly different from the run . f such garments. They come from Baris. The new etyle Is'a cross bc- tween a gray coat and an Eton and fits snugly In the back to the waist line. The hairs are quite as lung ls lynx. but. coarser and wl>h no sheen "I believe that Plerpont Morgan lias sold the furriers some of his English sheep dogs,” said a girl who was puz zling over It yesterday. The president and Sirs. Roosevelt accompanied by several children wi 1 go to Pine Knot. Mrs. Roosevelt's cot tage. In Albemarle county. Virginia on Thursday,/to be gone until Monday, when It Is Inexorable that the president shall hold th* annual New Year's re ception. Stealing a march on her parents aft er her plan of eloping to Washington had been nipped in the bud, .Miss i.ulu Moseley Ready, daughter of Mr. and -Mrs. C. E. Ready was married to WII- llam Burthn Hicks, In Richmond. Va., yesterday afternoon, Rev. Rolteri For syth, pastor of St. Pauls Episcopal church, officiating. When the young woman came down to breakfast yesterday morning her mother discovered that the girl was wearing her wedding gown underneath her outer dress. Declaring that *h, should not marry, her father and two brothers went to the several railway stations to prevent the possibility of an elopement. The girl nnd Hicks learned early of tills, and gathered a few friends ahmu them, procured a marriage license and were quietly wedded here. The fmher and brothers, were then advised that they might as well forego their cold watch at the stations. Official statements from Mrs. James G. Blaine. In ‘ Washlnglon. announce the.t she will soon become tho bride of Paul S. Pearsall, of this city, a lieuten ant with the Rough Riders during llie war with Spain. Mrs. Blaine, whose maiden name was Mn'rtha Hlchborn. secured a divorce In -South Dakota kmeral days ago. Her husband was the eldest son of the well- known statesman. Pearsall, who possesses an independ ent fortune. Is a 1 well-known figure in society and belongs to some of Un- most exclusive clubs. He has a-city home at 173 Madison avenue nnd a beautiful summer,place at Black Rock, oh the sound near Bridgeport. Mr*. Blaine received her decree it Yankton, 8. Dak.. December 22. As soon as It was granted she departed for Washington, where she Joined her parents. Rear Admiral and Mr*. Hlch born. The young woman and the states man's son were matrled In Washing ton In June. 1901. It was one of the events of the season. Two years later thero were rumors of a disagreement between the couple. Finally Mrs Blaine acknowledged the estrangement nnd a short time afteiwards brought her action. She was Blaine's second wife. Ills first was Mis* Marie Nevlns, of Colum bus, who Is now Mrs. W. T. Bull, wife of the noted surgeon. Site divorced him at Sioux Falls, In 1892- It w"» here the second Sirs. Blaine lived for eevera! months that she might acquire thejiwss^rvj-eslilsnce In the slate. Total. .1:2436433,376 $15,623471,285 The Increase In value* during the past ?wo yean has been quite a* great as the Increase between 1900 and 1906. SS. 8ou,h u nuw BIG KODAK BUSINESS We nntlclpnted n M* wife of Kodak*, ranion* uiuiitmir •U|ii>lle», I oil we really did not ex pect to get znowed und'-.* Tbe Brownie Kodak Boxe* were gone long 1** fore everylxHly wa* »«l»- piled, nnd the onlf ‘»f K<* il*k* and mmplle* w«» eliu- |dy unprecedented. •bow* th»ft “kodaking,picture fuk lug. Is one of the It Hliuply “LiraUkln*” A big order «»f new k<> dak* and wtippU*** ■rrtv' tmlii v, nal we are rwniv to Ktipply erery want lu • kodak F- The Mnt few tiny* hm I well rflic will tiler for ll»" koT.nktr, a ml we tore be. :i nearly *wni»ip*d with nt- ntrur finishing work: h*»w •orer. we sre. keeping «*'ii beads above water nnd ir * turning out the finest k;*- •Ink work In the wbo>* ffoatb. Be ■ “kodsker. Get In the swim. Take pie- lures. Kodaks 4re cbeme- $1 up lo tt6->«nd we glad Iy Irftruet you bow propci ly use one. •' * t-npr. A child can do If Agents for the fsmoti* kodnks. A. K. HAWKESCO. THE KODAK HOUSE. II Whitehall Street.