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'jlJuLL ATLANTA ' ui-ULU LL.'i. Published Every Afternoon ;Escept fiuoday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY. At 3 Weet Ale bene St. Atlente. Ge. Subscription Rate*. nr Veer P 5* Is Months J-{* brre Month* Mf Or Cerrtrr. Prr Work.... Smith A Thompson, advertising rep- rrerotstlree tor ell trrrltorr outside of Gaorgla Chicago Oflir Trtbnor Bldg. Sew York Office Potter Uldg. If eon beee nnr trouble getting THB CCOROIAN, telephone the Clrtniletloo Pepertmeut end beee It Promptly ten- edled. Telepbooee: Bell 4*M Mein. It Is deelrehle tket ell eommunlrt- ’ * ■- am la ilfneii! ee" an evidence of food fattal though the nutnes will be withheld If requested. Hejected ninnoecrlpte will eot be reiurued unlese etsmpo uro oeos for the pnrpoee. jsummIB «.TOJI«ib5! ,, 8Vr , jAWr. ■Me aad get gee •• law aa ft renta, with 0 profft to I be eltr. This ebould be dote at oore. The Georgian lie- Retee that If etreet railways rea lie aperated eeereeefnlly by European cftlee. ee they ere. there Is uo good raoaoa why Iliep cenoot he eo operated beee. Ret we <!e not hetleru tile etc be deae aow. aad It may be eome years before we are ready for ee big an un dertaking. 81111 Atlanta should eel lie fere la test direction NOW. The millennium le beret A musical comedy with a real plot and nn cho ral! Jackies down in Panama describe their dally duties as "pill and quinine drilla." A St. l/oiil* dispatch chronicles the tact that a nlne-momha-old baby there talk* plainly and a (treat deal. Of course It Is a girl baby. Prominent melt are urging Secre tary Root to reform the Congo. The flrit atap In that direction will lie to pry loose the grip of Leopold. An Indiana man fell heir to a for tune. He acknowledged It by prompt ly falling dead. There ought to be a clearing house for knit slippers mid surplus neck tie* Just now. Up Hast the ice crop Is said to be the best In years. Just wall until the ice trust gives out the news about next August. General Wood Is In trouble. again ? "What Is a kleptomaniac?" some body asks. It's something only rich folk! can afford to be. “The president will stand pat." as serts a political prophet. Yes. but will “Pal" stand the president? The bald-headed man enjoys an ad vantage now since hair cuts are soon to go up to 35 cents. Does Christmas come In Atlauta?— Charleston Serna and Courier. It does, and the sanest, happiest, brlghieat, best Christmas in Atlanta's history, too. Charleston may take It for a model. •emphatically The Georgian dis claims any responsibility for the fact that Miner Hicks Is to go on the lect ure platform. Because we happeoed to prognosticate correctly on hla prob able course, It should not render us liable as partlceps crfmtnls. Philadelphia seems unable to niter the truth out of Its Alter scandal. A Western governor-elect hag dis appeared to aave himself annoyance from office seekers, but they have de tectlrea on hla trail. Secretary Shaw says too mauy ten dollar bills are being held In reserve. Our alibi is ready. A Washington paragrapber "counts that day lost whose low descending sun” tlnds that he hasn't taken a shot at John Wesley Qalnes. That Kansas City judge who said no Addler ever amounted to anything, took a mean side-swipe at Kero and (Senator Hob Taylor. Many who turn over a new leaf New Year need some good glue to make It "stay put." The postage stamps that were wasted on letters to Santa Claua will help tome in wiping out our postal de ficit.—Washington Poet. "Don't you believe In fairies ?" Congress will reassemble in a few days to renew perusal of that charm ing aerial, "Presidential Messages." Dr. Newell Dwight Hlllls says we need more poets. He’d say the oppo site if he was an editor. Baltimore has no poor and needy children who missed 8anta Claua’ visit At least that la the supposi tion, because a young woman of (hat elty was forced to the expedient of Axing a Christmas tree lor her pot Yet or WON’T YOU WITHDRAW YOUR VETO, MR. MAYOR. The Georgian hope* and believes Mayor Woodward is mis taken in hia statement printed elsewhere in today’s paper to the effect that whether his veto holds or not, there will be a pro hibition election. It is generally believed that a prohibition election would not be wise at this time, and'The Georgian believes the majority of thinking people think right as a rule. We have stood against a prohibition election from the beginning, but'we stand more firmly against such setbacks as we have recently passed through, and in our front page state ment of December 24th we distinctly stated that if we cannot get the regulation as passed by council and vetoed by the mayor, the thinking people who are waiting patiently will see relief through h prohibition election. In other words, the liquor conditions that existed when the riot came, which conditions Mayor Woodward states he wishes unchanged. MUST BE GTIAXGED, and if the may or and council, who were elected by the people, will not grant what, seems to be the wish of the people, backed by The Georgian, The Constitution and The Journal, then we believe the more rad ical course of a prohibition election will be the next best, means, and the only means by which we ean impeach the opposition that is being shown to a popular demand. Mayor Woodward first says he ia trying to act in accord with the wishes of the people and then declares the people will have prohibition either way—how about that. Mr. Woodward! We need a change—we need the $2,000 license. -It will not be an experiment nor a risk. Prohibition may lie both to a certain extent hut there seems to be nothing left but to try it. Mr. Woodward, think seriously! It takes a great mail to have the courage to about face, but you hare the eotirage. and don’t you think developments have made it appear that you will do a ' great service to the city wc love so much, if, as almost your last official act, yon snve us from the risk and turmoil that is almost sure to come. We will stflnd with you against a eall for an election if you will do it. and the other papers, wc know, will do the same. Do it, Mr. Mayor. SATURDAY EVENING. The twills.,t falls fast upon the last Saturday evening of the event ful year of 1904. / It haa been n stormy, and tempestuous cycle for us all. In war, In peace. In trade. In politics. In society and in religion, It has enriched all records with events of vast and varied meaning, and as it passes to the realm of shades and memories It leaves behind for history's pen the documents to establish It an Immortality In time. It would be Ane with sweeping pen to trace the majestic Hue of Inci dents that have marked the closing year—to summarize the martial movements that have been transformed Into the mightier miracle of peace, to gather the great sweep of commerce into descriptive statement, to balance It against the dark exposures of human frailty In high Anance, and to contrast these‘with the uplifting currents of society and the rapid and Inspiring fraternity among religious creeds. But the hour admits at best a passing locnl comment, and a purely local plea. We are passing out of the shadow now of the darkest incident In our local annals. Into an era of peace and a high conception of the reign of law- The white man haa reacted from the wildest expression of his ruclal antagonism Into a noble and uplifting advocacy of law, and the negro, he It said to hla credit, la co-operating through hla highest repre sentatives, with the beat and kindest element of the superior race. For this we offer thanks to the Throne from which all mercies come. We have suffered In this eventful year, the sorrow and travail of a long and bitter political campaign. Blows have been dealt and wounds have been made that leave memories which only noble minds are great enough to efface from recollection. Friend against friend r.nd kinsman against kinsman have ranged themselves In separate and opposing campa, and In their honest advocacy have clashed In judgment, sympa thy and public spirit upon the Issues of a great campaign. The keenness of debate la over, but there lingers In the aftermath of battle the embers of a bitterness that smoulders and menaces the unity of the tranquil and prosperoua future to which we strive. There should be no factions of personal feeling In this great and united state of Georgia. We may dl vide on economic lines and social Is sues, but we have been too long a unit In the essential things of civilisa tion for feuds and personal enmities to dlsAgure a people, which aide by side has grown out of great tribulation and wrought out surpassing prob lems to noble and correct results. The clash of ambition Is a transitory thlug which should be fought In fairness and ended with the verdict of the polls which tells the winner and denies the loser of the prlxe. The clash df ideas may represent our different minds and our varying environment, and If each man has car ried hla own Idea lu honest courage lo the public conscience of a demo cratic government, be should accept the verdict ot that majority which may give Its judgment to one man and its affections to another. The Idea that wins today may be discredited tomorrow, and the victor of yester day may follow today lu the wake of a greater than he. No honest difference of opinion on public Issue* should separate honest men, and when the battle of our brains la over, the unembittered hand should reach out to Hud Its comrade In the friend ot common strug gles In the year* gone by- - And an as the year falls to silence In this softened week of peace and fraternity, let ua trust that the Georgians who have been estranged ti|Kin «o scant a cause as varying friendships and differing opinions, may let fall the passion and feeling of day* and hours that are forever past, and on the bright threshold of the bravo new year, renew the fellow ships of yesterday and repledge the friendships that should be strong enough to survive a dozen differences and a thousand conflicting views. I-et ns forget all In the past that is uupleasant and bitter, and let us remember for the future (bat we are all Georgians, seeking according to our several light* to advance the Interest of the people and the honor of the state. And so let ua all shake hands and start the year without malice and without guile. A SOUTHERN CANDIDATE AND A STATE’S RIGHTS PLATFORM. Now. then. The Washington Host seems to be taking the suggestion of a Southern man for the presidency with pro|ier seriousness, and to regard It with seasonable good will. In a brief editorial at the head of Ha page on Wednesday last, The Post remarks: “A year frost now the Democratic party will be running up and down the South hunting a candidate for president of the United State*. He may be found In little Delaware; he may be be found In big Texas: he may be found on the banks of the Yazoo. In the state of Mississippi. "It has been a long time since the country has had a taste of old-fashioned Democracy. Those of our population who were fortunate enough lo experience H have a recollection of what real corn bread was; but even In Kentucky the tusking of sure-enough corn bread la rapidly becoming a lost art. just as Democracy got to be a lost art, so far as the Democratic party Is concerned, some ten or a dozen years ago. "But there are some real Democrats left, just as there 1s some real corn pone left In Kentucky, and the Democratic party is likely to be on a voyage of discovery a year or sixteen months hence. Orsy, Rayner. William*. Culberson—there arc plenty of them between Delaware Bay aud the Rio Grande mouth. "Mr. Root lately made a speech that awakened the Democrat ic conscience of the South. There la some dispute as to the cor rect interpretation of Mr. Root’s speech, whether It was a threat or a warning. Some folks say it was a bugle call to patriots to ral ly to the support of state’s rights: other saw In It a funeral ora tion pronounced ou dead and done for state’s rights. "Whatever It really was, it made mighty logical the Demo cratic party's search for a Southern man to captain the Democrat ic squad In ISO* '' There is real meat In the comment of The Post, aad It is an Insplr- ratfon to note the Idea Implied If not expressed by that great newspa- lier. that the South Is the American section of the republic, and its states men the real defenders of the constitution and the rights of the etatee. The fact that ia this call (or a real Democracy the leading newspaper at RECORD OF WHAT A YEAR HAS WROUGHT Notable Events During 1906 in the Principal Lines of Interest BUSINESS January. 1—Printers In many cities strike for an eight-hour day. J—McCall resign* os president of the New York Life Insurance Company; succeeded by Alexander E. Orr. 10—United States Smelting. Refining and . Mining Company Incorporated, with a capital of (76.000,000. 20— American National Live Stock Association formed by consolidation ot two national organization*. February, I—Central Pennsylvania coal min ers’ strike; trouble settled on the 12th. IS—Heinzs sell* his copper holdings to rival concern*. It—Bank of America, In Chicago, placed under a receiver. IS—United States supreme court holds that (raffle fn coal by railroad* Is unlawful. President Rooaevelt and Secretary Taft, concurring In the re port of the minority of thp board of consulting engineer* of the Panama canal, favor a lock canal. 21— United Lead Company and Na tional Lead Company consolidate. 12—New York legislative committee Investigating life Insurance reports to the legislature. 23—German relchstag passes the bill to extend reciprocal tariff rate# to the United State*. 21—President Roosevelt's Interven tion Induces President Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers, to call a nation 'invention, with the view of-fivert Ing a miners’ strike. IS—United States Steel Corporation leases the J. J. Hill ore mines In upper Michigan for thirty years. March. .Vanderbilts buy the Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad. 10— Ohio 2-cent-a-mlle railroad fare law takes effect. 11— Anthracite coal operators reject miners' demand*. 28— George W. Perkins, ex-vice pres ident of the New York Life Insurance Company, arrested on a technical charge of grand larceny In giving In surance money to campaign funds. 29— Conference of miners’ represen tatives and operator* at Indianapolis adjourns sine die, without reaching an agreement. April. 2—Mining suspended In the anthra cite region. 17—Attorney General Moody decides to prosecute coal-carrying railroad*. Russia concludes a loan for 1450,000,000, 2ft—Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Company and officer* fined by a Fed eral court for rebating. 28—Suit begun at Toledo against the Standard Oil Company and subsidiary concerns to revoke their charters. SO—Baltimore and Ohio railroad quits the coal business. May. / 4— Presldeht Roosevelt, In a/speclal message to congress, attacks the Standard Oil Company. Sugar trust and New York Central Railroad Com pany Indicted under the Elkins law. 5— Anthracite miners accept peace terms offered by the operators. 9— Collapse of the longshoremen’s strike at Cleveland kills the mates' union. 10— Electric Properties Company chartered. June. IS—Kansas City Jury finds four pack..,* companies guilty of accepting freight rebates. IS—Federal court at Kansas City convict* the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad of rebating., IS—Lake Erie and Ohio river ship canal charter bill pakaed by the senate. Tobacco companies indicted by the Federal grand Jury of New York for conspiracy. 29—House finally^ passes the I.aka Erie and Ohio river ship canal char ter bill; signed by the president next day. July. 8—Former officials of the Chicago and Alton railroad convicted In Chl- ' Federal court of rebating. International policyholders' com- mlttee permanently-organized. Wages In New England cotton mills raised. 10—Central Pennsylvania coal min ers' strike settled in conference. |S—Cincinnati laundries Indicted on charges of combination In restraint of trade. 19—Dissolution ot the sewer pipe trust announced by.Harry. Alvan Hall. 31—Pennsylvania railroad reduct* passenger fares east of Pittsburg and Erie and abolishes the 1,000-mlle.tlck- et rebate.. r August. (—Closing ot the Milwaukee State bank, or Chicago causes a panic and two deaths among depositors. 8—Standard Oil Company Indicted by the Chicago grand jury for accepting rebates. 10—Federal grand Jury at Jamestown. X. Y., Indicts the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Standard Oil Com pany for rebating. 22—Conference of governors. Insur ance commissioners and attorneys general meets at St. Paul to draw up an Insurance code. 2?—A1 Adams' 400 bucket shops as sign. 26— Pennsylvania railroad lines west of Pittsburg give notice of a reduction of fares to a 2-eent basis. 27— Ten Indictment* returned In Chi cago against the Standard Oil Com pany.-. 28— Rnilrohd rate act take* effect. Real Estate Trust Company, of Phil adelphia, suspends and goes Into the hands of a receiver. September. 7—Vanderbilt* begin a railroad rate war. 32—Largest natural gas well In the world brought In near Kane, Pa., and gets beyond control. 24—H. CV Frick and H. H. Roger* buy control of the Norfolk and Western railroad. Pennsylvania railroad outs passenger -fares to 2 1-1 cents a roll- in Central Passenger Association terrl tory. October. B—Terms of lease of the Hill ore properties to the United States Steel Corporation made public. 6— American Union Telephone Com pany absorbs several other Independent concerns; total capital $26,000,000. 9—Ohio Bridge Trust dissolved. 15— Detroit United Railway Company announces as an experiment a rate of ten fares for 26 cents, II—Jury at Findlay, Ohio, convicts the Standard OII Company of conspir acy. New York Central railroad lined by a Federal court In New York for re bating. 24—Trena-Alaakan-BIberlan Railroad Company chartered In New Jersey. SO—National Petroleum Association files complaints against the Standard Oil Company. November, (—Harrlman wins control of the 111] nols Central railroad, defeating Presl dent Hamilton Fish. 7— Pennsylvania rallrokd orders in crease of wages. 14—John D. Rockefeller and Standard OII directors Indicted at Findlay, Ohio. 16— Attorney General Moody sues for an injunction against the Standard Oil Company. American Federation of La bor approves of alliance with the Amer ican Society ot Equity. 19—Thomas F. Ryan resigns hi* of ficial connection with many railroad and Induatriat corporations.' 82—Minimum fin* Impoaed upon the Pullman Car Company In the Pennsyl vania pure food l&tv cases. 23— United States Steel Corporation announces ^Increase of wages. 24— Samuel Gomper* re-elected pres ident of the American Federation of Labor. December. 4—National Petroleum Association flies with the Interstate commerce com mission complaints against flfty-one railroads. 14—Standard Oil Company Increases wages. Amalgamated Copper Company absorbs the Greene Consolidated inter ests. Mexican government assumes control of all railroads In that republic. 21—Insurance presidents take the first steps toward forming an associa tion. the national capital turns Its prophetic and its seeking eye to the land of Calhoun and Lamar and Stephens and Hill and Toombs and Hayne and McDuffie, Is an Inspiration to the statesmanship of the New South to go backward to the fountains of Inspiration which are to be found in the lives and advocacies ot their famous and faithful forefathers. And by this sign we know that the day Is advancing when a South ern nominee shall advance and strengthen the hope of victory In the great political party, which has lived upon Its loyal support. A STATEMENT THAT STAINS. It docs ring monstrous upon the conscience of Atlanta to hear from a reputable committee after careful Investigation, that not one of the victims of our September riot was remotely connected with any of the offenses charged against the race, and that there was not a vagrant In the entire list of the twelve killed and seventy wounded. This strong statement Is a damaging thing to send abroad for the great public who have already abused Atlanta ao much, but It la a whole some and effective warning to din Into the ears of every riotous and disorderly Individual In the city of Atlanta. It does not seem likely that the majority of the roeu who were most guilty In this affair will ever bis reached by the strong and avenging hand of outraged law. And there It only left the mighty engine of public opinion to bring to bear In condemnation of their crimes. The press of Atlanta must perhaps risk the further damage which will be entailed upon the reputation of the city lo this publicity In order that the strong'clear note or the newspapers snail represent i’ue ipi. It of the city and of the community, and may possibly reach the earn of at least a majority of those who were engaged In a 1 riot whose results upon the innocent have perhaps never been equaled In the annals of crime. To think that In a racial trouble Inspired by revenge for monstrous outrages, real or attempted, that the blind majority of rioters should have found no single culprit on whom to whet its vengeance, but in a spirit, of wanton and reckless generalization should have destroyed twelve and wounded seventy entirely Innocent and Inoffending parties. It Is not possible to disguise the fact that there were many people en gaged in that mob who ought by all their traditions to have known better, and who entered it thoughtlessly on the angry and frenzied Im pulse of the moment. These participants will carry with profound and long-continued regret the results of tbelr conduct. They were swept away by the events of the preceding weeks and probably followed the lead of bolder and more reckless spirits who were not ao careful of 'human lifo or conscientious as to the guilt or Innocence of the assailed. We feel sure that these men are already suffering sorrow and the pangs of remorse, because they are built of the stock and come from the blood of a civilization that cannot contemplate such a fault even of Its own without an aftermath of horror and regret. To those of this class who are reached by the appeals of the public press, this ghastly finding of the committee should be a warning as long as they live, against hasty and Intemperate expressions of either private or public passion and revenge. ^ Never again should auy young man or old participant who reads this startling statement, be tempted to forget this episode which, wheth er designed or thoughtless, haa made of him a criminal (a a greater or lesser degree. Never again should any maa who touched the outskirts of this violent demonstration fall to remember the Imperative duty which devolves upon every citizen In a crisis to keep his temper and retain hts head and not to forget the sanctity of human life or the majesty of the law. There are doubtless some sad tad shadowed hearts that are beating today In the bosoms of some men who were impulsive members of this mob. The law may find them out and physical punishment may be added to tbelr keen regrets, but If It does not we are confident that every ad vancing year ot their lives and of their reflective capaslty will add to the shadow and to the suffering which the memory of their connection with this deplorable tragedy must entail. For whether they art punished by the law or whether they are unap prehended and go unwblpt of justice, they mutt undoubtedly suffer under the lash of that conscience which Is the heritage of every man born of good parents and under a Christian civilization. Morgan will proceed to grill him on the witness stand. A cable says Raisull It to be de posed. Make It decapitated and we acquiesce. A rich Eastern man wants td find a poor but worthy person to whom he can leave bis fortune. A local reporter known where he can find the party, but modesty causes him to refrain from saying more. Here’s an Incredible thing. New York woman was robbed of $10,000 worth of' diamonds. 8be wasn't an actress! A California man has Invented a pump to milk cows. Dairymen in this section have been using the pump In other ways a long time. [ Wonder if the cold ware didn't nip that famous white fiannel suit ot Mark Twain's? After wishing William Nelson Most of us work hard enough, but too many of us work hardest trying to keep from working. Must be hard times In St. Louis. Firm there Is advertising “men's suits cut in half." Wanted—New Year's resolutions. The kind that rough handling and frequent neglect won't effect. WHY HE 8UBSCRIBE8. To the Editor of The Georgian: Twelve months ago I subscribed for The Atlanta New* because you were Its editor, now I want The Ueorglan, first, because you are Its editor; sec ond, because you have no Sunday edi tion: third, because It tekea no whleky advertisements; fourth, because It ad vertises no medlrlnea that are objec tionable, and, fifth, because I think, hsvlns *"“n only two copies, It !• one of the best In Georgia. Are you offering any holiday Induce ments? Whether you are, or are not, pleaee give me your price to minis ters. 1 am a Methodist minister. 1 am yours very truly, J. W. TAYLOR. Rayle, Ga„ Dec. 19. 1904. WERE TODAY BUT YE8TERDAY. Were today but yesterday With all Its Innocence and fun, I would the day could never end— That there could be no setting sun. For 'twere yesterday that you and I Gathered violets, tender and blue, You grouped them Into bunches for me, f bound them with threads for you. I did not know—1 did not dream That In this blissful binding Our hearts were being 'twined together For the ecetacy was blinding. Were today but yesterday Ere life's bitter strife begun. I would the day could never end— That there could be no setting sun. —CALVIN F. CARLTON. ! GOSSIP By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER. New York, Dec. 29,-Almo.t as bn. v r t “, OCl ® 1 T* f u av « r ™*ed In York (and there are lively memories of the rancorous hatred of certain in cal vendettas), la the one that WMhtnrt f ° r H * C * ntral ttroun,, Md Washington as an outpost, with the cauaea of conflict found In Bellamy Storor and hla wife. y Young Mrs. Lo.igworth la making » ahow of treating the affair with m. difference, but her friends assert she feels the complications keenly, it i a all right how. when she la In Wash- Ington, but the case takes on a dlf. c*t™. nt aSP8Ct ,n her hu » b »nd'e home „„ T ' ie «Mer Mra. Longworth has g„„e over absolutely to the cause of the naluraMy |g „ ot on dial terma with her daughter-ln-la* Sharers C,nclnnat * 'ticks to the Intimate friends of the Roosevelts do "°.‘ h ** ltat «> t° * a Y that the president might have been more tactful and not have brought a family dispute on his daughter within a year of her mar- gf**-, The Cincinnati contingent in Washington (and It is powerful) i. openly In favor of the Storers, and young Mrs. Longworth will be In the unpleasant position of finding the WiVftH Of hrtP ImtlmniPa .... Mr. and Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt will sail for Europe the first of Janu ary, accompanied by Mra Hollis H. Uunnswall, sister ot Mr*. Vanderbilt, and her husband and Mra. Frederick Nellson. Great Barrington has Introduced a new thing—a man chambermaid. “Men are just as able to take care of children as women and are as com. potent and gentle In the performance of such outlet," one woman I know, declares, "and the women of Great Barrington who have tried It say that they are perfectly satisfied with the ■result." The difficulty le, will enough men who are out of Jobs attompt to invade women's sphere In this capacity. Many perhaps,- eeem to feel that .unless Car negie medals are given to the men who volunteer to act as nursemaids ihe generality will refuse to believe in the genuineness of hero rewards. Secretary and Mrs. Root will have a house party over New Years, Including Miss Harrlman. Mlsa Janet McCook. Ellhu Root, Jr„ Owne Root, Jr. The*Russlan ambassador and Baron ets Rosen have as their guest (nr n week or ten days Baron Scnlppenbach. Russian consul at Chicago. The harnn Is an old friend of Mr. and .Mrs. Rosen and did much to entertain her on her recent visit to Chicago. Where the 1 Georgia Delegation Live in Washington. SENATORS. Augustus O. Bacon, 1767 Oregon ave* nue. A. S. Clay, the Normandie. CONGRESSMEN. W. C. Adamson, the Oxford. C. L. Bartlett, the Shoreham. Thomas M. Bell, the Iroquois. W. G. Brantley, the Chapin. T. W. Hardwick, the Shoreham. W. M. Howard, the Bancroft. Gordon Lee, the Shoreham. E. B. Lewie, the Metropolitan. J. W. Overstreet; the Metropolitan. L/ F. Livingston, 19l4 Blltmorc street. “ M. Griggs, the Metropolitan. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. ONLY A BEGINNING, Tb* rich widower waa paying assiduous court to the hendsome young woman law- "i don't know. Mr. Wellopb." sbo de- mimed. 'There nre—there are settlements to l»e considered, you know." '•Hthst »* »R- MJ**„ Maggie," he said, bav« no trouble.' # Here he slipped a diamond ring on her •Stow does that strike you}" "ll'm." she rejoined, boldln light a It will cage Tribune. to.” she rejoined, holding It up tu the an.l Inspecting It critically. "l think I do quite well—so n retainer."—Chi- Credit System Abolished, Special to The Georgian. Augusta. G*.. Dec. 29,-The steam laundries of Augusta have decided that after January 1 all laundry bills must be paid at the time the articles are re turned to the owners and the credit system will be completely abolished. Bank Declerse Dividend. Bprt’lul *o The Georgian. Covington, Oa.. Dec. 21.—At the reg- mSw’aySa - ,he «'»«ori of the '-“Vhigton, on December 2*. a dividend of 9 per cent was declared fSS? K P * r C * nt l °\ ,he ""Tilua John R. Johns, John R. Johns, aged 23 years, died Saturday morning at his residence. 23 Hayden street. He is survived by his wife, one sister and three brother*. The funeral services will be conducted Cromwell a happy New Year, Senator weatvtew. Tl1 * ,nl ' rroenl will be in DECEMBER 29. 177! Sarssash teken by * k » British. 190*—Andrew Johnson, seventeenth it.-.M- m of the United Stales, Iwirn. Pled July 31, 133. William ... man, horn. Died May 1 . 1112— Commodore Belnhrldge, comoisndltiz Ihe frtgnte Constitution, raptured Iks British frigate Java, off Sou Halrailor. IMS—"Cermeu Brits," queen of Rommall, born. IMS—Tessa admitted to the Union. tM(—General Taylor took possession of Ur- torln, capital of Tsmsspllss. 1880—John B. Floyd, of Virginia, resign"! aa aocretary of war. 1842—The confederates attacked G«w™ Sherman and drove him back to tint line of defenae before Uckabart- 1844—Moaby Clark, n Bevelotlonary sridter- dled nt itlchmond, ta„ et the adtasred age of lit yenre. 1878—Train wreck at Ashtabula. Obi* Eighty kilted gad alzty Injur'd 1994-Forty persona perished by 4te at • Christmas festival at Mirer lake. Ore. DON’T BOAST. The mule that kick* the hnrdeet Hasn't got the neatest le**- , The wares that toe* Ihe wildcat Are not of the deepest tea. The fruit that !• the eweeteat Isn't oo the telleet tree: The dog whose berk la fiercest Doeatft always know the moat, And the man that la Ihe bravest Isn't always ou the boasi. THE KODAK HOUSE Agent* for the Eastman Kodaks. TV# handle pistes- time, chemicals and erery kind of sup plies for the sms- tear Kodaker. Specially equipped department tor ama teur finishing, fte guarantee the lies' possible results. Bring u* year pl*tes ■ml films. Mall order depart meat for oot-of-lown Kodekers. Bend for catalogue end price Hit. L L MIKES CO. HtliDli Hint 14 Whitehall Street.