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THE ATLANTI AN 11 AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK ATLANTA, GEORGIA Statement of Condition, As Reported to Comptroller of the Currency At close of business June 14,1912, RESOURCES Loans and Discounts. United'States Bonds Other Bonds and Securities Due from U. S. Treasurer Cash in Vault and with Banks $3,618,571.70 500,000.00 62,583.12 25,000.00 845,083,86 $5,051,238.68 LIABILITIES Capital Stock.. $ 600,000.00 594,893.96 474,695.00 Surplus and Profits Circulation Deposits 3,381,649.72 $5,051,238.68 The officers and directors of this bank unite in inviting new accounts on the basis of efficient service and absolute security. CAN’T EVEN GUESS. Mexican leaders feel a diffidence about offering any assurances as to what may happen, inasmuch as their own ignorance on that point is usually most profound. —Washington Star. WANTED. THERE WILL BE ANOTHER IN JUNE. We trust Mr. Taft will not attach un J due importance to the fact that this is the first R-less month.—Columbia State. WHERE, OH, WHERE? THE WORST KIND OF MORTGAGE. Is it not a disheartening thing to go through life under the harrow of debt, struggling to get release under circum stances that give no hope of relief? Is it not unfortunate to feel that we can never lift the mortgage from the home, that in spite of all our efforts it must finally be sold over the heads of those dearer to us than life itself! But all this is nothing compared with the mort gage of vice upon the character which blights the life. Many a man has died without being able to lift the mortgage from his home, yet has been a real success, for he kept his manhood clean, his integrity/ un stained, and, although he left no ma terial wealth, he had enriched the lives of all who knew him. The nicotine mortgage upon your vi tality, the alcohol mortgage which har dens your nerve fiber, benumbs the brain cells, paralyzes the power to achieve, and makes you a slave instead of a king, are incumbrances compared with which the mere mortgage upon your home is a bless ing. If you are mortgaged to the cigarette habit, which demoralizes your ambition, poisons your blood, benumbs your nerves and vitiates your aim; if you have a whisky mortgage, an immorality mort gage on your character which you have been trying for years to lift, this is in finitely worse than your chattel mort gage or real estate mortgage. The mort gage on your home may not touch your real self. In spite of it you may be a man, respected, looked up to, admired. If your life has been clean, you may have made every acre of land in your vicinity worth more. But if your character is mortgaged to a demoralizing habit; if you are the victim of a degrading vice that holds you down, cripples your ad vance, this is a thousand times worse. It loses you not only your respect, but also the respect of those who know you. If you have fallen into the slavery of a vice; if you have a mortgage on your character too strong for your will power to lift, you are in a bad -plight. There is only one power that can cancel the mort gage. If you have become the victim of the power of vicious acts which kill self- respect, which demoralizes you, which de grades you, which keep you down, you are under a mortgage which it will re quire Divine help to lift, which only om nipotent power can cancel. Are you carrying a cigarette habit mortgage which saps all your physical savings of energy? Are you trying to make the run for success, the race for the goal loaded down with a whisky mortgage! If you are, you are like the runner who starts on the race with a heavy iron dumb-bell in his hand, which wrenches him out of his straight course, destroys the symmetry of his move ments, makes him topple and keeps him back, taking away the strength and breath he needs for the final heat, so that he lies down exhausted half way to the goal. The runner who is trying to gain the championship strips himself of everything which can possibly retard his progress. He can not afford to be weighted down with that which hinders and binds and hampers his movements. He must have freedom. You can not afford to try to make your great life-run loaded down with any hampering habit. You can not afford to risk hazarding your success for a little temporary pleasure, your chance of reaching the goal for the sake of taking along with you some hindering, crippling vice. Many writers and artists are so mort gaged to liquor, their nerves are so soaked in tobacco that they have lost their finer sensibilities. They can no longer judge with clear perception artis tic values. Their mortgage has reduced their earning capacity to one-half or one- tenth of its original worth. There are many artists whose whisky mortgage has cut their earning capacity from ten to fifteen thousand dollars a year down to a few hundred and in some cases, to nothing at all. I know business men whose striking abilities have been so mortgaged that in stead of being at the head of large con cerns, of great enterprises, they are look ing for any kind of a job which will give them a fair competence. I know lawyers, once brilliant, who stood high at the bar, who have become so smirched in the grip of vice that they have completely lost their standing, and have hard work to earn their bread and butter. How many have gone down under the mortgage of a shady reputation, a tar nished character?—Orison Swett Marden in Success Magazine. PRACTICAL GIRL. Her Father—“Can you support my daughter in the style to which she has been accustomed!" Suitor—“No, sir; but she says she can accustom herself to the style in which I can support her."—Boston Transcript. GUILTY AND LESS GUILTY. From Woodrow Wilson’s speech: For the controversy between Mr. Roosevelt and the President is nothing loss than a controversy upon this point —which of them was the least implicated in the alliances which have held tho Re publican party in thrall? A keen thrust, Governor.—Baltimore Evening Sun. THE ALL-COTTON FOLLY. Year before last the farmers of this section made a fairly' good corn crop, and as a consequence had fat stock and lived mainly at home. Last year they sacrificed everything in the interest of cotton, with the result that they received less money for the large crop they raised in 1911 than they got for the smaller crop of 1910. And not only that: Many of them are even this early in the sea son buying corn at over a dollar a bushel because of their neglect of this crop last year—to say nothing of having to pay about $20 a ton for hay. It is to be sincerely hoped the same mistake will not be made during 1912. Now is the time to plant an abundance of corn and other food crops.—Greensboro Watch man. A Hat for the Head of navigation. A Nightcap for the Brow of the hill. A Monocle for the Eye of opportunity. A Stickpin for a matrimonial Tie. A pair of sleeves for the Arms of sea. A Glove for the Hand of fate. A Manicure for the Finger of scorn. Link Buttons for Cuffs of misfortune. A corset for the Waste of time. Suspenders for Breeches of trust. A Shoe for the Foot of the hill. A Toothbrush for the Teeth of the wind. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHE LOR. A girl with pretty ankles seems willing to bo out in the rain like a duck. A woman wants her praise when she deserves it; a man wants his anyhow. If a girl hears a man pay a compli ment to anybody else she can never bo sure he is to be trusted. Some folk can take pride in how much more distinguished their family skeleton is than other people’s. A very useful thing about a chest of tools is all the things you could do with them if you could ever learn how.—New York Press. Sam: “Will you keep our engage ment secret for the present?" Lulu: “All right, but where’s the present?" CHOICE PARTS. Actor: “I’ve been with you now three years, and I think I am entitled to a raise.” Manager: “Certainly. Henceforth you shall play in all the parts that have meals." WHAT’S THE USE? History Tutor: "I shall expect you to write an essay on the French Revolu tion." Student: “Why do you ask me to do that, professor! Isn’t Carlyle's French Revolution good enough?" SHE WON. First Little Girl—“Your papa and mamma are not your real parents. They only adopted you." Second Little Girl—“All the better. My parents picked me out; yours had to take you just as you came. ’ ’—Denver News.