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10 THE ATLANT1AN === = the===== Fourth National Bank INVITES YOUR ACCOUNT The service rendered its depositors by this bank is thoroly accurate, competent and satisfactory. Small accounts, as well as large ones, are given careful and considerate attention. Every department of banking is maintained here, Commercial Accounts, Savings Accounts, Foreign and Domestic Exchange, Safe Deposit Vaults and Boxes, a Department exclusively for Women. CAPITAL .... $600,000.00 SURPLUS .... $780,000.00 We invite you to make the FOURTH your banking home JAMES W. ENGLISH, President. JOHN K. OTTLEY, Vice-Pres. W. T. PERKERSON, Asst. Cashier CHARLES I. RYAN, Cashier JAS. M. THOMAS, Asst. Cashier FOURTH NATIONAL BANK railroad, built out from the mainland, for 130 miles, through the waters of the Atlantic ocean to Key West, by means of a series of massive pier-and- arch viaducts, constructed of re-en forced concrete, rising thirty feet above mean water level. The road will link together the keys or islands, some thirty in number, by means of this series of colossal viaducts, some of which are three to four miles in length, and all of them over water varying from three to thirty feet in depth, thereby making Key West the commercial outpost • of the country, commanding the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico, bringing Cuba within nine ty miles of the great railway system of 'the continent, and, in effect, pro- jecting our entire railway system hun dreds of miles nearer to the Panama canal than any railway now existing. The advantages which this marvelous ocean highway is destined to afford our commerce with Cuba and the West Indies, as well as with Central and South America, and (on the com pletion of the Panama canal) with that of the countries of the Orient, are incalculable. In time of war, its strategical importance as an army and navy base, and its value as a base of supplies, it would be difficult to exag gerate. In no other country would such a project ever be thought of except as a national undertaking. Nowhere does history show a parallel to it as an in- dividual enterprise. Only a country’s strongest, most resolute men are ever identified with great and difficult phys ical undertakings of this character. Unless a public benefactor like this is for inscrutable reasons to be excluded from consideration as unworthy of recognition for this honor, I submit that it is just that Henry M. Flagler's name should be accorded its rightful place in the galaxy of the “ten great est Americans now living.” T. P. HALLAND, Manager Owls Club Ball. AMERICANS IN THE MAK ING? Sceptical persons in the suburbs, owners of property which depreciates in value with every alien invasion, who have been heard to wonder whether Americans would ever assim ilate, will feel a great weight lifted when they read of a social event that took place on Sunday in the Brighton district. As the tale is briefly told, | Mr. Sarkrysian invited a number of t fellow-countrymen to dinner. Later in the afternoon Mr. Brahmian, a | guest, who had come all the way from Watertown, requested a boy who was W. W. ORR, Secretary and Treasurer George Muse Co., and One of Labor’s Staunch Friends. present to write a letter for him, and proceeded to dictate assertions of his own affluence and to cap them with reflections on the financial standing of certain other members of the race. Evidently Mr. Brahmian had some par ticular person in mind. Mr. Iscailian, the boy’s father, felt sure of it, con cluded that he was the person, and, by way of upholding the honor of the family, displayed a roll of bills. It was, we infer, a substantial roll. Mr. Brahmian, worsted in the argument, picked up a chair and put it where he thought it would do the most good. Mr. Iscailian retorted with a knife. The men were separated by police men, probably singing, “My Country, ’Tis of Thee,” and a police surgeon saved them to ornament our citizen ship by dressing the scalp wounds of one and the cuts of another. Students of social economy will hail this narrative with joy and thanksgiv ing, since it proves that Mr. Brahmian and his associates have already grasp ed a great American principle, to wit, that one should continually show his roll, or at least proclaim it. The rule underlies our whole social structure. We obey it when we flaunt our neigh bors with diamonds, automobiles, fine houses, troops of servants, or almost anything that we may have and they are liable not to have—since of course the essence of the whole performance is the pleasure derived from odious comparisons. It is not to Mr. Iscaili- an’s discredit that he plays the game clumsily, since he has not been long in the country. Presently he will learn that it is a little crude to exhibit one's purse, and then he will content him self with putting forward the things that money can buy. But Mr. Bramian has, it may be, already mastered the moves. Apparently, he did not show any money. He merely said he had money. Great numbers of ingenious persons live in luxury by pursuing this method, which answers the main purpose as well as any other method, since it helps them to provoke the envy of other persons—who have not so much money, because they use it to pay their bills. The display is the essential thing. If one can secure it, or even supplement it, by a “bluff,” one is competent to teach American ism to aliens who use the crude, com plimentary weapons of knives and kitchen chairs. ROMAN CATHOLICS TOTAL ONE-SIXTH OF U. S. POPULATION. Official Directory Shows 14,618,- 761 Enrolled in the Various Churches in America. According to the Wiltzius official Catholic directory, which is in press here, there are 14,618,761 Roman Cath olics in the United States enrolled in the various churches. This is practi cally one-sixth of the total population of continental United States. According to the directory there are 17-084 Catholic priests and 13,461 par ishes; 4,972 parochial schools have an attendance of 1,270,131. The Catholic population by States, where the number is about 100,000 or greater: New York, 2,758,171; Pennsylvania, 1,527,239; Illinois, 1,446,400; Massachu setts, 1,380,921; Ohio, 1,694,271; Louis- ana, 557,431; Wisconsin, 540,956; Mich igan, 536,107; New Jersey, 495,000; Missouri, 452,703; Minnesota, 441,081; California, 391,500; Connecticut, 378,- 854; Texas, 296,917; Maryland, 260,000; Rhode Island, 251,000; Indiana, 223,- 978; Kentucky, 147,607; Iowa, 242,109; New Mexico, 127,000; New Hampshire, 126,034; Maine, 123,547; Nebraska, 122,510; Kansas, 110,108; Colorado, 99,485. This does not include the Catholics in any of the island possessions. W. A. WOODDALL, Chief Conductor, Georgia Divi sion, '457, O. R. C.