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THE ATLANTA GEQRQI AN AND NEWS, THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NEWS) JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Published Every Afternoon (Except Sunday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY, At S West Alabama St.. Atlanta. Ge. Subscription Rates Three Months'.’.’.'.'.'.'.'.’.’.’...'. •* By Carrier. Per Week I* Entered at the Atlanta rostofflce as second-clase mall, matter. Telephones ronnertlnx all departments. Lena distance terminals. Smith A Thompson, "I'T.V'ilStlfde'of resents tires for all territory outside or Georgia. Chicago office Trjhnne n d*. Seer York office Potter Bids. ir eon hare one tronhle sotttns THB GEORGIAN AND NF.Wf,'telephone the Circulation Department anu_ hare it promptly eemedlrd. Telephonee. Bell 49?7 Mein. Atlanta 4t0t. It Is dsstrsbls that ill rommnnles. lion i Intended for pnhncsllon In THE GEORGIAN AND NBWE lie. Ilmltad to SOO words In Irsflh. It Is Isiperstlr* that Ihsy be slgn.'l. ee en erldence of good faith. Rejected inannocrlpta will sot be returned unlegg stamps are eeol for the purpose. THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS prints 00 unclean or objoctlonablo ad- trertlatojr. Nelthrr does It print wblahy or any liquor sds. ODE PI.ATFORM.-Tho Ornrgtan and Nawa stands for Atlanta's owning Its own gas and oleetrlc light plants and Nawa bollans that If atraet rail ways can be operated eucereafully by European cltlca. aa they are, there la no good reason why they ran net be so operated here. But we do not hellers tale ran be done now, and It msy be eome year* before we are reedy fur so big en uudertehlng. Still Atlsnta should eels Its face In (hat at dlrectlou NOW. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS AND ADVERTISERS, On Fsbruary 2 The Georgian pur chaaad »ho name, good will, franchise*, advertising contracts and subscription list of The Atlanta Nows, and Th* Nawa is now published ao a part of Ths Geor gian. All advertising under contract to appear in The Nows will ba printed in The Georgian and Newe, without inter ruptien, except auch ee is debarred by The Georgian's established polioy to exclude all objactionabla advertising. The Hon. Grover Cleveland has so Iona been the throned Idol of The At lanla Journal that we cannot fall to commiserate our esteemed contempo rary upon the recent columblad which Ihe Sane of Princeton has hurled at the delirium of railroad denunciation. "Georgia Papers Versus Carolina Papers." Nothing could better illuatrale the centripetal and centrifugal force of At lanla In the life and civilisation of the South than the wide demand which la ever growing through all this section for the representative news papers of this Twentieth Century city. Here, for Instance, fa an editorial taken, headline and all, front a recent Issue of Thu Dally Piedmont at Green ville, 8. C., which la In the highest de gree Interesting and significant. Says The Piedmont: “We mentioned the Charleston situation to a gentleman the other day and he replied he had heard nothing about It. Thereii|ion we expressed surprise, saying the matter was specially treated in both The State and News and Courier. 'Oh.' he replied, T never see those papers, I take the Atlan ta papers and they give me all the reading I have opportunity to do.' We wonder how many similar caaes might bo found in upper Carolina? It is true the mall ser vice gives Atlanta the Inside track, the 'news' reaches us a little ear lier, but Is It not a pity that South Carolinians should receive all their news with the Georgia color ing?” The above paragraph wa* writ ten by the editor of The Seneca Journal. The Columbia State takes up the matter and bewails ths fact that there are people In the upper aectlon of this state who are Ignorant of the current history of South Carolina. You note that the gentleman stated that he did not take The State or The News and Courier, but was a subscriber to the Atlanta papers. It has been a habit for a long time for certain South Carolina papers to poke fun at the Atlanta newspaper spirit. When Mr. John Temple Graves started The News and later when he resigned and became Ihe editor of The Georgian there apeared In •everal South Carolina papers suc cessive paragraphs making light of the famous edjtor. The Georgian today Is hardly a year old and there Is more news to be found Inside its pages than Ir. any paper published In South Carolina. We do not like to admit this, but a comparison of the editions prove this to be sadly true. The truth the whole matter Is when you down to facn, that the 'At lanta papers are slowly crowding out of the Piedmont the two big dallies of 8outh Carolina. We are sorry to see this. The Piedmont goes on to say that it Is Installing a perfecting press, in creasing Its news service and will be promptly on sale every afternoon on the streets of Greenville, Seneca and other towns In advance or the Atlan ta paper* to which statement The Georgian cheerfully gives the currency of its columns. Two facta loom out of this coii- trovergy among our Carolina contem poraries. One is that Atlanta la coming to be more the capital and metropolis of the South, the model of progress and the center of sentiment. South Carolina newspapers have ah way* been critical and even hyper critical of Atlanta and Atlanta Jour nallsm. The comment of The Greenville Dally Piedmont would seem to Indl- The other fact la equally evident cate that South Carolina people do not and emphasized by comparison that the newspapers of Atlanta are equal to any published In the United States, and superior In general new* to the majority of thoie published In New York, Chicago and the larger cities. abare the spirit of the great South Carolina editors. It la also Just barely possible that the facts disclosed by The Piedmont may explain the critical milk In the Caro lina editorial cocoanut DISCRETION IN RAILROADS AND PEOPLE. The condition of affairs between the railroads and the people at this time Is much too serious and Important to be considered In any other tem per than that of calmness, Justice and firmness not unmlxed with consid eration. Within the past ten years a moat unforl nate condition of feeling has grown up between the railroads made by the people, and the people whose territory In turn has been made by the railroads. These two great and vital factors, one the creator and the mighty majority, and the other the colossal creature, and the wealth holder, have come within two decadea to entertain feelings for each other which could not fall to have resulted as they have today. The people holding. In the main. Just causes against the railroads com plain of Injustice and discrimination, of arrogance, of appeals rudely ig nored. of rates and charges arbitrarily made, of inconveniences and dis comforts obstinately adhered to, have come to feet that the rail roads are unjust • and oppressive to them In the sheer right of wealth and power and that they aa individual! among the people are fully entitled to be unjust, unfair and lnconilders'e toward the railroads, and In many cases have felt justified In dealing unfairly In money matter* with theae great corporations upon the Justification that as the railroads defraud the people so the people are also Justified In defrauding the rail roads. Upon the other hand and*amidst the clamor and protest which this age has brought aliout, much of It founded In Justice and In fact, and some of It, to be perfectly truthful. Inspired by demagogy and revenge, the railroads liavo felt that the people In the aggregate were unjust and unfair to the railroads, that the railroads could not depend upon the peo ple, and that therefore the railroads must draw up within themselves and depend upon tbq power of their money, the genius of their lawyers and the scope of the political force which they could summon In order to pro tect themselves, and, If necessary, to defy the people. Add to this the spirit of orrogance which comes from the conscious possession of vast resources and great power, and the desire for more, and we have the explanation of corporate Indifference and greed. No reasonable man will deny that this feeling between these mighty 'factors has existed In the past end that It exists In even more menacing form today. 1*he marvel Is that In this enlightened age forces so advanced should have tolerated either the birth or continued growth of feeling so prejudi cial to the real interests of both. It la astonishing that the broad Intelli gence which rulea the railroads could not realise that sooner or later there would cptne an awakening and a reckoning with the mighty power which ihe people hold In their ballots to revolutionise systems with which they are not In accord. And It is astonishing that the broad.intelligence which Is supposed to guide the people has not realised the value of taking hold at an earlier slage with thejr ballots of an Issue which both oppresses and divides and of settling long ago In legislation the things which they protest so much. In this hour of perception nnd of opportunity when there is yet time, both the people and the railroads should look cleaily In the face the great Issues which divide them and seek by Intelligence and concession to accomplish those things which otherwise must be and will be accom plished by an economic revolution. It was Henry Clay, of the great American Triumvirate, who said that ‘‘compromise was the very essence of statesmanship," and It was just as evident In Ills day as it Is In ours that mutual concession and mutual con sideration is the best and highest basis upon which all problems both po litical and economic may lie permanently solved. If the railroads In the strength of their lobbies or in the power of their purses and the entrenchment of their privileges have been Indiffer ent and oppressive to the people, they might have known if wisdom had been among their assets that the time would come when a power greater than these things—the power of the ballot—would be aroused to their discomfiture. If the people today awakened at last to the full conception of the rem edial and revolutionary power that rests in their ballots, think that they are to permanently solve the Issue botween the railroads and themselves by legislation that is unjust and unsound, they will find that the impar tial courts Interpreters of the Impartial law will stand to defend the rights of thn pople whether organized Into corporations or represented In stocks nnd bonds. * The whole wisdom ol the situation should prompt railroads and people to a fair, broad consideration of the Issues which divide them, and a fair and heroic willingness to do the right and proper thing. We believe, as a representative of the people, that the great body of the people are willing to be Just and fair to the railroads. We believe that the thinking people nnd particularly the plain people of thla country who read and reflect, are essentially fair, and that If they are treated with reasonable consideration they are willing to show a reasonable considera tion tn return. We take It for granted that the railroads desire no legislation that will destroy their ci|Aclty to pay the expenses of tbelr operation, ihe sala ries of their officials and a reasonable profit upon tbelr money. We lake It for granted that the railroad! desire to be appreciated for what they have done In time past and co-operated with In their Intention to do great er things for the development of thla country In the tlate to come. And these wishes are reasonable nnd should be met by the people. On the other hand, we firmly believe that the people are aroused to the evil and Injustice of watered stocks, and that they are not willing any longer that the railroads should be operated in such a way as to compel the people to pay dividends upon vast sums of money which have never been put Into the properties of the corporations, and that they will re fuse tn consent hereafter to the earning of dividends upon anything beyond the actual money, fairly estimated, which represents the railroad invest ment of the country. We lielleve that the people desire and will demand that every consid eration should bo shown them In the way of prompt and regular sched ules for passenger trains. That the best and wisest methods shall be In stituted to Insure this regularity. That the train* shall start unless lo cally prevented from their prominent terminal stations upon the advertii- ed time of departure. We believe that a train delayed by accidents in North Carolina or Vir ginia should not delay far Into the waning hours of the night, scores and sometimes hundreds of people Including women and children who are wait ing In the terminal stations in Georgia and the other states. We believe that every train should bear the burden and responsibility of Its own accidents and that the passengers whom It carries should bis provided for by the railroad authorities In other ways, so that the vast numbers of traveling people should not be held through hours of trial and of darkness when any reasonable equipment could send them out on their own schedule time toward their destination. The people demand that In the smaller stations of the railroads throughout these slates that the doors of the stations should be kept open at night, and that passengers compelled to travel should not be forced to endure the weather, winter's cold or summer's rains, waiting on weary platforms for trains that come after the closing hours of the evening. The people desire and will demand that their freight shipments which represent their necessities and are valuable many times In propor tion to the promptness of their arrival, shall be dispatched with greater regularity along the different lines over which they are routed. They believe and will not easily be convinced otherwise that consideration for individual shippers will make It possible by the rapid transfers of freight and Ivy the greater expedition of trains to cure much of the long and damaging delays which are too often the history of Important freight shipments from the great wholesale centers of the country. These tower among the leading incidents of our mode-— transporta tion life which irritate and aggravate the people anu Inspire them to en mity and reprisal against the railroads, and the people believe that due consideration with any reasonable degree or capacity can devise way* and means by which these evils can be abated. Now If, Instead of arroganca, Indifference and arbitrary attitudes on the part of the railroads; If Instead of distrust and the spirit of retalia tion on the part of the people, these Issues can be taken up and settled In reason and In justice by reasonable people as they should be, we shall approach a better, a higher and nobler level of our economic life than we have ever known before. The railroads msy rest assured that the people are going to demand and to insist upon their rights. They need not think that the people can be diverted or Intimidated or trifled with In this mstter. By the ballot, by the law, and by the power of dauntless executives, they sre going to se cure these reforms. Opposition to them, arrogance In regard to these de mands, and Indifference to the people, will only aggravate the popular demand and make more radical the Inevitable reforms which they Intend to Inetitute. The whole spirit of wisdom and of common sense, not to speak of consideration upon the part of the railroads, would seem to dictate an In telligent recognition and acceptance of theae demands. And If In this spirit of Intelligent understanding the railroads do accept and meet the demanda of the people, they have it in their power to modify tremendously, not only the spirit of animosity on the part of the people, but the rigor of the legislation which the people otherwise will be disposed to vote Into existence upon this railroad question. We plead, then, for the spirit of Intelligent equity between the people and the railroads. The people are aroused, militant and all powerful. That does not mean that the people are not willing In a full sense of their power to be considerate and Just. The railroads ere rich, skillful In manipulation, and necessary to the people. That ie no reason why they should not recognize these things which the people have right and power to demand, and to concede those things in consideration rather than be forced to surrender them by leg islation. Let the people remember that the railroads are neceesary and have a right to live. Let the railroads remember that the people are all pow erful and entitled to fair dealing and do not Intend to let them get rich beyond reason by dividends upon watered stock. Then, In the spirit which President Finley has preached of kindness aud of courtesy, to the people waiting at terminal stations, In sending out trains on time without forcing them to wait from three to seven hours on foreign connections, by opening the doors of railroad depots at the coun try stations, and by expediting better methods of freight which are nec essary to commerce and to living—let these great bodies approach each other In the spirit of mutual consideration and all will be well. It Is not the cue of the railroads to force tho people to express at the ballot their position on this question If they can avoid it. It Is not the cue of the people to revolutionize the entire railroad sys tem and to make receivers as thick as leaves In the American railway system If they can by conference and agreement reconcile the dividing questions In a better way. Conference Is 'always better than contest. A FINISHED TEMPLE. The Georgian feels so personal a pride In the new Masonic Temple that It cannot retrain from a suggestion that seems to us very pertinent at this time. It Is the habit nowadays to build large buildings, finished only on the sides facing streets, leaving the sides facing adjoining property blank and plain, with the idea that someone else will build a high building next door. Most of our tall buildings are built In that way. We understand that the new Masonic Temple is to be finished only on the Peachtree and Cain street sides, while the side that will be seen from up Peachtree will be a towering blank, red wall, no doubt to be visible many years after most of us are In our graves. We understand that the committee on building meets Tuesday, and we suggest for their earnest consideration the Idea of rounding out tho building on three sides, making it an all-round temple that will gladden the eyes of all from the viewpoint that It will be looked upon so frequently— that of upper Peachtree—and not left a blank, unfinished wall that may stand a decade before any bunding will be erected that will anywhere near cover It up. It will cost a little more money.lt is true,-but can It not be done? The Temple at Detroit Is an example of the finished building and is a joy to all beholders. The Idea Is not new. LET THERE BE NO COERCION IN THE MATTER OF SIGNS If he chooses to have an electric sign, with SOO lights, that costs him 1350 a month to run It every day and night, he pays the bill; let him have it, for certainly no one should object. Hut if his neighbor, next door or across the street, sees fit to have a non-elcc- trlc sign of equal size anil proportion, that costs hint nothing to -maintain Indefinitely, I say, let him have It. pro vlded he complies ,wlth the building laws aa to Its proper mechanical con struction. Let him embellish It with gold nnd silver and Jewels, that It may be brilliantly beautiful to behold, and though It goes to sleep at night, like Its owner (which la a good sign for man nr beast), It silently watches for nnd cutches th* moonbeams, nnd then when Old Sol, the ancient Oriental god of day, rises from the pearly east ami traverses the azure arch of heaven, let this sign reflect his rays'wlth daz zling splendor, without forcing its own er, by special legislation, tn poy tribute. W. W. REYNOLDS. GEORGIA SCENES. Tn the Editor of The Georgian: I saw a cow slip five feet high, slide up the cow-catcher of n locomotive, evidently thought It was a cattle train. The cow was very much hurt at haw Ing stopped n passenger. Raznr-bnck hogs shave the whiskers Off of telegraph poles; run loose In most small Georgia towns and kick fleas all over travelers sitting in front of the hotels. They aeem to conatl- There" Is a principle"Involved In this | lute the sanitary department. They movement that will not down. A* a have a speed equivalent to a Jack rab- common citizen, and In the Interest of hit nnd ought to be used In the fire the whole people, 1 stand for, and ask | department also. There Is a slight oh- for, a square deal, and a fair deal, jectlon to their use; they run tn the Equal rights for all, with special privl-1 opposite direction; however, they ~et lege* for none. The proposed sign I somewhere Immediately and that is ordinance does not grant or permit more than moat fire departments do this. The existing ordinance is not so Fires ought not to be put out too very bad, though it needs some correc-1 soon. Many a man has gotten rich tlons. ! from a fire, and some towns need new It discriminate* against all sign j buildings occasionally. While traveling over the country I will keep my eyes and ears open for any news of Interest and importance and send It In. Yours, R. L. C. Rome. Go., March 22. JA8PER SUPERIOR COURT IN REGULAR SESSION. Special to The Georgias. Montlcello, Ga., March 24.—Jasper superior court is In session this week, with Judge H. G. Lewis and Hollcltor James K. Pottle presiding. There are eight homicide cases to be disposed of at this session. Judge Lewis made an able charge to the grand Jury. Felix Franklin was elected foreman of the grand Jury-. To the Editor of The Georgian: Referring to the present agitation on the subject of overhead signs, flat signs and round, signs that stick out and have two sides, as well as the ques tion Itself, I beg to submit for the con sideration of your paper and of the general public, who are Interested In signs of uny and all kinds, the follow ing: Few people outside of the slgn-mak- a and sign painters have any concep tion of how far reaching this ordinance Is In Its very nature. Few Interested citizens, outside of the council cham ber or committee rooms, ever knew anything about these ordinances In Ihe past four years until they were en acted and signed by the mayor, ex cept the authors nnd persons In whose intereet they were framed for benefit and protection. No legitimate sign painter, a citizen of Atlanta, in the last twenty-one years, to my positive knowledge, has asked for any gpeclal legislation In hi* favor, and we do not aak for that now, nor against any In dividual or corporation. No resident •Ign painter or maker has ever asked the city council to discriminate In his favor or against anybody. And when the law of 1888 nr 1889 was enacted, declaring ull signs projecting over or above the sidewalk a nuisance, nnd which swept them all down, no sign K Inter ever murmured or said a word, cause all shared the same fate and | all enjoyed the same privileges. A Pleased Customer is the best advertisement a bank can have. * We always endeavor to increase this featur of our business. We offer to depositoi-s every facility their balances and business responsibility warrant. MADDOX-RUCKER BANKING CC painters nnd sign users, by saying thnt no sign of any description shall be used or allowed beyond the three feet limit, except electric sign*, with all lights on the outside. Thu*, no matter how- much a merchant may feel the need of a eign for the purpose of advertising his business during the day, he will be forced, under this ordinance, to ntRke a contract for a term of years with the electric company to light It. and by special legislation of council, under both the existing ordinance and the proposed ordinance, he will be com pelled to keep the lights burning throughout this term of years—every night from dusk to 9:So o'clock— whether he wants to or not. For he Is bound, under a city ordinance, to do so. and has absolutely no discretion In this particular feature of conducting his own business. If he desires tn pro ject his sign beyond three feet. That feature Is embodied In both the present ordinance and the new proposition. It smacks of class legis lation of a very rank type, and I ques tion Its legality. In a free rnuntry. In our own South land. and. above all. In proud Atlanta, the sign user should have the tight tn vnv what kind of n s'gn he shall use. ABOUT THE PROHIBITION FIGHT, To thXEditor of The Georgian: When the Georglqp published the report »f our executive committee rec ommencing that the proceedings In the calling of a local option election be suspended, the local editor said that the wortt wae ‘indefinitely postponed, " That Is not true, and the report In Its body shews that It la not true. The expression 'indefinitely poetponed" le technical In parliamentary law. and le practical!) equivalent to an abandon ment of t measure. That Is exactly what we are pledged not to do. This Is «ur plan, and I speak officially and with Absolutely full knowledge of the sltuaibn: The combined forces of Georgia Bap tists and Methodists and the Antl-Ba- loon League have entered upon a wide and systematic canvass of the state to f ret petltldis calling on the next legla- ature to bass a state prohibition bill and other legislation effectively to pre vent the tefeat of prohibition by the Jug trade. Toplee of that petition are now going Into every aectlon of Ihe state. They will be carried Into every portion 6f this county, and every man, woman anil child will he called on to sign them. With a work like this go- Ing on all over the state and the Ful ton county worker* In fullest sympa thy with It, we Juat made up our minds to suspend our local option proceedings until after we see what the legislature will do for us. Our petitions calling for a lot nl option election will not lose any vitality; they will be as good in September as they are In March. If the state prohibition law Is passed we will have no 'deed for them; If It Is not passed w<* will he ready to'take up the fight Immediately. If a bill prohibiting the manufacture, sale and importation of intoxicating drinks into Georgia should he so modified as to leave Ful ton county out of It, we wUI at once cell for an election under the local option law. None of this will be neces sary. of course, If we get what we want in a state bill. While w# are getting up the petition for a state bill, we will still be enlarg ing our petition calling for an election. Two very prominent gentlemen who were In a meeting of our committees, but who had not signed the call for a local option election, signed It today, knowing, of course, that It would he filed awsy until we see what the legls lature will do. I hope that this statement may find speedy publication. The erroneous Im pression made by previous publications anouhl be removed as quickly os pos sible. . J. L. D. H1LLYER. March 21, 1907. SEEDS OF KINDNESS. Sowing seeds of kindness As through the world we go; Sowing seeds of kindness Which very soon will grow. Rowing seeds of kindness. Scattering far end wide; Sowing needs of kindness Which grow on every elde. Sowing seeds of kindness# Throwing to the wind, Soon It will be ripening. Weil bring our harvest la. Heaping seeds of kindness. How hnppy It will lie: Reaping seeds of kindness Sown by you and me ' -FALL M’DONALD. CHARGED WITH USING THE MAILS FRAUDULENTLY. Special to The Georgian. Huntsville. Ala., March 26.—Gus M. Lemley. of Bloomfield, Ala., has been arrested here on a charge of using the malls to defraud. He was given a pre liminary hearing before Commissioner Greenleaf nnd placed under a bond of 630U, to await the action of the grand Jury. THE FIG LEAF. This scanty raiment of verdure Was worn by Eve. 'll* said: And ever since has a symbol been Which, nil the world has led. Countless trensure and countless wars Thro' history mark Its trail. And countless lives been sacrificed In defense of this garment frail. Tn honest men no cloth of gold Can rival this mantle of green. For It glorifies the peasant girl And sanctifies a queen. Beneath Its folds our lives began; It's hissed the paths we've trod. And the pure-ln-henrt who love its sign Are lifted up to God. WILLIAM E. FOSTER. Atlanta. Ga., March, 1907. AN INQUIRY. To Ihe Editor of The Georgian : I sin deslmns to know If there Is nuy living member of the geeood Georgia Re serves, ami especially nm anxious to hear froni n inetnlier of company "C." Any old ineiiilier will confer a favor on me by writ ing J. It. Edwards, Sylvester. G*. Your* truly. J. R. EDWARDS. Sylvester. Ga.. Ilarrli 21. Ask to sec the New Tortc Lenses and our Seml-In- vislble Bifocals. The very latest In spec tacle and eye glass lens construction. The new Torlc Curve to the eye; lashes do not touch; clear vision In every direction; a great stride In modern lens making. Ask to see them. Our Hem I •Invisible Bi focals—far and near-seeing glasea In one frame—are simply perfect. We make a careful ex amination of your eyes and can give you comfort If glasses are the help you need. AUDITORIUM ACOUSTICS. To the Editor of The Georgian: You have seldom said anything more Important than what you have said about the subject named above. There Is no mistake that architects make more frequently than they do in the matter of building Auditorium*, in khich nobody can hear. In the old Kimball opera house capital, on tho orner of Forsyth and Marietta streets, there were only two places from which a speaker could be heard. In spite of that experience when the present cap ital was built they fixed the house <>f representatives hall so that there Is no place that Is exempt from echoes. There are two causes for had acoustics. One Is reverberation: tho other Is echo. It often happens that a flat overhead celling becomes a great sounding board, and vibrates like :i vast drum head, filling the house with n roar Instead of clear sounds. Tint can be relieved by stlfenlng the ceiling. Echoes occur In various condition*. Rut a hemispherical vault overhead I* practically certain to produce echoe*. A sound Impulse leaves the speaker. One shaft goes directly to a hearer out near the center of the building, and he begins to hear the word spoken, hut before he gets It, another shaft from that same Impulse strike* tin Inside of the dome, Is reflected to th** opposite side and down to the ear **f that hearer, about one second after he began to hear the first Impulse. The result Is he hears neither. I was very solicitous about the Tabernacle until I learned that It would be built on the lines of Spurgeon’s London Tabernacle. That. I understand, Is all walls and celling In the lines of an ellipse, with the speaker at one focus. Hound shaft* from his voice strike the walls or cell ing and are reflected only to one single spot; that spot might have an abun dance of echo, but It would be only *n a very small space of n few Inches, and that might be down under a pew nnd nobody Is troubled by It. A better form Is to project the lln••* that bound the interior of a great au ditorium along the corners of a series of parabolas with a commno focus at the speaker's stand. In that figure the echoes would be reflected close along the surface of the wall and none **f them would get out among the au dience at all. It would be impossible for one echo to get down from the celling or to cross the hall from one side to the other. Architects shou. I make use of their knowledge of comb e sections as well as their proficiency in the art of decoration and mere con struction; and they would do well not to forget the elementary principle* "t acoustics and of geometry. Respectfully. J. L. D. HILLYER- Women s Many Jobs. 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