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wmmmm Telephones wnnivtlnf all depart- (•fit*. Long dlafane# farm Inala. •orgla. \ ~ O office Tribune Building fork office........Potter Building telapl hone the circulation department nud hare It promptly remedied. Telepbonea: Bell 4937 main. Atlanta 4401. It la deelralite that all eotnmnnlca- Ilona Intended for publication In TUB BBOROIAN AND REW$ be limited to MO word* In length. It la Imperative that the? be algued, aa an evidence of good faith. Rejected raamverrlpta will wmunuiaii ........ print* no nncleao or otijpctlonibt. an* vertlslog- Naltber doe* ft print whisky or a of liquor aria. K upu i'i.a i r 'ina ueor*i*a 9 New* aland, for AManla'a owning awn caa spd electric ll#bt plant*. » i It Bow own* It. water works. Otbrr tloa do thla and rat (aa aa low aa M rents. with a prod! to th. City.* Tbit thanlrl ha dona at once. Th. Orerglnn “ ' ll.rei that If street rail- «Jt eto b* operated suceessfully by European cities, at Ih.y tro, there It ao good rsaaoa w« _ ‘ —d hara operated here But wo do not noiieye tela tan bo dona now, and It nay be I. years hofora w. are ready for ao ao ondartaklo(. sill! Atlanta ehontd Mt It* fan In that direction Persons leaving the city can have Tho Georgian and News mailed to them regularly by send ing their order to The Georgian office. Changes of address will be made os often as desired. Samuel Inman Finds His Work. It Is a matter of peculiar gratifies' tlon to the thousands of friends of Mr. Samuel Inman that ho Is giving the vigor and Interest of his more mature years to tho great question of educa tion, male and female, In the stato. Mr. Inman la a figure dear and hon ored among the people of Atlanta and of Georgia. lie has been called the first cltlsen of Atlanta, and thero aro multitudes of noble actions In the wake of his useful and gontlo life which Justify that proud and noble ap* pollution. Bellied In life beyond the necessity of an active prosecution of his own affairs. In porfoct health, \flth blame* less years behind him and a beautiful character bullded upon his kindliness and philanthropy of living, there could be no npbler cause In which this no* ble cltlsen could serve the state ho loves, and the shite which honors him, than In helping with all his sound tense, with all bis broad philanthropy, and with all his gontlo tact and kindliness to Inspire and to help In the direction of the educational llfo and program of the state of Oeorgla. We believe that If a ballot of that great host of Georgians who caU tbem- selves Sam Inman's friends could bo taken tomorrow, or today, that tho ballot would be unanimous that bo has found bis work among the youth of Georgia. And we are very sure that what his bands find to do In this great and no* ble cause, be will do with his might, faithfully, gently and goncrously to the end. The chances are that we shall have some spring next summer at least. The child Is the future cltlsen, and the educational conference Is the • forerunner of the better state. Ifow good it Is to aee the fair El- berta blushing rosily over the funeral notices preached above her lu the early spring! Ha* Congressman Griggs deserted Atlanta? Tho light of his counte* nance and the warmth of his smile have not Illumined the Capital City in many moons. Senator Clay's prostration with the grip Istrobblng him and the spring platforms of somo charming mutual reminiscences. The letter of the editor of The Georgian printed ip The New York World of Monday was sent In sponse to a telegram from The World asking specifically for a further elab* oration of the Chattanooga proposi tion without regard to space. The World is Is the ablest and foremost of the Independent Democratic pa* pen of the country, and Ita courtesy sod catholic fairness are appreciated bars and elsewhere. The revival of the cltlsen will be a natural consequence of the reor* K ganlsation of parties. The Presbyterians and Harmony are having a historic tussle In Bir mingham. Here's to harmony, which no mean* discounts our loyally to THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS THE EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE VITAL. Georgia has rarely had a more significant and Important meeting than the conference of prominent Georgians which gathers on Friday to discuss the vital'topic of education. The practical spirit of this practical and effective age has come at last to grapple the great question of education In a practical way, and whereas we have heretofore been accustomed to confine our Interest In educational matters to a few platitudes upon public occasions, and to relegate this great cause to our handful of teachers, and school commis sioners, It has come now to be recognised as a vital If not the most vital question in this republic. And In this high conception, tho progressive public spirit of this age Is beginning to approach It with the seriousness and deliberate vigor which Its Importance demands. Here, for Instance, on Friday are fifty leading cltltens of Georgia who have been carefully selected, and who after some weeks of due de liberation and study have come together to give, through the newspa pers and through printed reports, to the state legislature and to the people of Georgia, their matured a nd thoughyul views upon • the all- around development of our Georgia youth. The occasion is one of vast Importance. Every father and every mother In this Empire State Is an Interested auditor, either by ear or by the “hearing of the eye," to tho deliberations held at the state capltol, at tho Kimball house and In the Chamber of Commerce. Friday Is most distinctly “Educational Day” In Atlanta, and the whole progressive spirit of cduentlon In this progressive state should rally to do it honor. There Is a program at the capltol In the morning, a program at the luncheon given by the Chamber of Commerce at noon, and another pro gram In thd evening In the parlors of the Kimball bouse—all filled by strong and eamost men and women of the state. Surely, In this grand abd thoughtful symposium of the vital Geor gians of today, we should receive a forward pulse toward better methods and larger liberality, both In conception among our people and In appro-' prlatlon among our legislators for the higher and > the elementary branches of education In the state. Education holds the key to tbe tremendous future that Is developing before this people. Day by day as we measuro In comparison the In terest and liberality of other states, we must be quickened through all tbe veins of Georgia’s life and patriotism to a larger and a more vigor ous treatment of this vital question at home. "SINGLE SHOTTING” THE VITAL ISSUE. The Savannah Press and Tho Msco/i Telegraph, discarding the has ty and Intemperate and adopting tbe more deliberate and thoughtful form of discussion, now complain that Tho Georgian and Its editor are concentrated upon the one Idea of the “regulation of predatory wealth,” whllo they, The Press and The Telegraph, are thoroughly Im pressed with the fact (hat there are other Issues which dlvldo the two political parties and the two men who are the chief figures In each of them. This position states clearly the difference between The Georgian and its contemporaries. It Is at last a difference In degree rather than In fact. Wo recognize fully here the existence of other Issues beside the control of predatory wealth and the regulation of the railroads. But we recognise no Issue that Is so pressing and so vital In thla particular era of our politics. Wo are "single shotting” this Idea because It overshadows at this particular period all other Issues and questions which divide the two parties. In the economic process ot the last two decades, there have grown In these United States a series of enormous corporations and sovcral colossal combinations of business Interests whose Increasing power over prices, over politics and over legislation have come to be a real monaco to the country. Twenty-five years ago, the Interest of political parties .might have ' well been divided upon tbe other Issues which The Press and The Tele graph describe. At that time and In that more tranquil period It might havo. been wise and iiolltlc to draw the lines and form the ranks of par- * ty upon the Issue of the tariff, public Improvements, enlargement of territory and the questions of labor and of capltol. Theso questions still exist, and thoy are each of them of an Im portance which no man la disposed to deny. But no thoughtful man In this age will refuse to concede that stoadlly and remorselessly the aggression of tho corporations and of or ganized wealth expressed In railroads, In mergers and In the trusts bavo come to be the supreme menace to popular government and the su premo Issue in Amorlcan politics. The other questions are not dead. They are simply subordinate. This question may not be always as pressing as It Is tbday, but for the present nt least It Is urgent, menacing and supreme. It Is great enough and vital enough and urgent enough to justify the post ponement of other questions while wo deal with it. We bcllove that In their honest moments (and they have many) the editors of The Press and of Tho Telegraph would concede tho fact that if wo aro "single shotting one Issue” in this period of our economic history, that we have selected that Issue which Is'the largos}, the most dangerous and the most prtsslng of them nit. Wo bcllove, too, that The Press and Tbo Telegraph, dealing fairly with that great “patient” which we political doctors call tho people, would Indorse the proposition that among several ailments wc should treat first and most absorbingly that ono whleh most seriously threatens the life of the sufferer. If a human frame should be afflicted with fe ver nud u broken limb or a feunshot wound any wise physician would set tho limb or treat the wound with surgory while he permitted the other malady to wait until the urgent evil was relieved. A human body trou bled with consumption and cholora at the samo tlmo would be approach ed by a physician with reference to tbe rapid and aggresslvo disease while ho deferred an especial attention to tbe moro deliberate malady for a Inter time. And ao It Is the Idea of Tho Georgian that In tho order of their Im portance wo should first tako hold of this groat eating cancer upon the body of the people and cut It out of our economic life, before we proceed to give constitutional treatment to the other chronic maladies which afflict tha body politic. This, la a nutshell. Is tho position that wo take. We believe it to bo founded and based upon reason and common sense, and wo think that tho peoplo In the main heartily agree with It. Thero Is another rnotlvo In The Georgian's position to which wo direct the attention of our contemporaries. These other questions which they press and which they so ardently emplinslzo at this time are utterly handicapped In their treatment and* remedy by the disordered and divided condition of tho parties which champion their several sides. How are we going to get a divided and factional democracy to treat these Issues of tho tariff, currency, states’ rights and territorial enlargement until wo can bring those parties to gether in a coherent and united state? We ask our friends of The Telegraph and of The Press not to forget that the other great central object of tho Chattanooga proposi tion was to bring about a condition In which these parties could be re formed. and reorganized along honezt and definite lines to champion and to carry the opposing theories of the government. We have not been able for years to present a Democratic platform which carried any great majority of real Democratic sentiment behind It because either Belmont bad triumphed or Bryan had prevailed and the Democrats who ought to bo Republicans, or tho Democrats who followed the old lines have alternately held sway to the discontent and discomfiture of the other faction. • It Is so with the Republican party, but more so now than ever be fore, and so much so that perhaps the great end of reorganizing par ties upon definite lines offers the great and not the lesser reason for tbe proposition which The Georgian has advanced. Forty per cent of tbe Republican party in New York city voted tor Hearst In the municipal election- N'obody knows what large per cent of the Democratic party voted for Roosevelt, In the last general elec tion. The hoi>eless factions In each party absolutely demand some op portunity for a complete and wholesome reorganization, and If any man will offer to the public any sensible and promising formula other than an era of good feeling, by which these factions in either party can be let loose to re-allgn themselves behind the principles in which they reailv bcltev*\ w» should be clad to bear It. hind theories of government and principles In which It actually be lieves. Tho wholo Integrity of tbe electorate depends upon Its ability to do this thing. The habit which we have bad for years of voting for things In which we do not believe, and for leaders for whom wo do not care, simply because a caucus or a convention of tho accidental majori ty of our own party has decreed it, Js demoralizing tp tbe integrity ot the ballot and to tbe real principle of representative government. The opportunity for a new deal for tbe Individual citizen with his Individual ballot Is a second supreme and compelling reason for one great "era of good feeling" In which all party lines may be for a tlmo completely obliterated In order that they may be nq more definitely and more honestly drawn. , After an «ra like this the, Democratic party might be so reorgan ized as to call to Its ranks every real Democrat In America. The Re publican party-of vested rights and privileges could be so reorganized as to rally all Its honest and sincere advocates behind Its leaders. And for the future we should proceed according to the convictions of the voters rather‘than by the compulsion of bis ballot under party cau cuses or political conventions. Here, then, are two .Issues Instead of one which we “single shot” as compelling In their appeal for the temporary obliteration of party lines In order to re-mark and re-deflne the honest and opposing theo ries of the government. LaFollette will bo a fine "runner up" to the finals of the presidential tourney. The “Southern Candidate” Is the the most hopeful light on the whole horizon of Democracy. The paragrapber and the kingdom are still far apart. Tbe Joint weight of our governor and our governor-elect oufcht to de light tho fancy of Grover Cleveland, who would have probably “turned down” Tllden and Alex Stephens on size. . LET THE PEOPLE HAVE A 8AY-80 IN EVERYTHING. Editor of The Atlanta Ooo{gian. I am one of many women who aub- scribe for your paper to have the great pleaaure of reading the finest editorials emanating from a Georgian's brain. I find myself embarrassed by my riches In thle respect when I attempt to cull the very best rf)d write you concerning them. Lae Thursday, May 16, your editorial "Link Charter Revision to Greater At lanta" waa Just too good for anything. I do hope you will keep up a racket along that line, for we want that old charter done away with. "The Noble 46” came very near granting the petition of the women who asked that the women who own prop erty should be permitted to vote In At lanta and begged them to recommend It. If the women of Atlanta had munic ipal suffrage, as the women of Kan sas have, the licensed liquor traffic would have to go out of business as It Is going In Kansas, driven out by the votes of women. We hope Mr. Maddox will be a mem ber of the charter revision committee of Greater Atlanta, for he Is our friend. Mr. Elite la not so we wouldn’t vote for him for conatable or any other office for that matter. "Let Ue Have Fewer Secret Sessions of Public Bobles” was the next editorial to strike my fancy. You expressed In your own Inimitable way mV Ideas on that subject and 1. Indorse every word of It. Why ehould a few men, "eervants of the people,” meet eecretly and elect other men to poaltlons on the police board, board of education, commie- sloner of public works, city engineer, school superintendent, etc.? If per mitted once or twice there will be no ond to it. Tbo men people are not weary of voting, they like it and wish to vote for those they wish to serve them. It le natural for Americans to love to rote and that Is the reason so many women want to vote—they take after their daddies, don’t you see? Besides all that we women want to see election days come oftener than they do, for the abominable licensed saloons are closed, and our men folks cannot get drunk so easily as they did when Atlanta was a wide-open city and ever>- election day wni a horror. The women were compelled to stay at homo to save themselves from Insults of va rious kinds generally offered by "men In liquor.” We like the change, Mr. Editor, and our eyes are opened to the necessity for many other reforms. For Instance, we see that the bal lot Is a wonderful power, and should sot be Intrusted to drunken. Irresponsi ble people of any color or condition. I was delighted to read In last Saturday's Georgian how the - working men (may God bless them, every one!), were protesting to council condemning the plan to effect officials by that body, and that the railway employees held a meeting and pledged themselves not to vote for men supporting that plan. Those men had the courage of their convictions, and they know that the ballot Is the right‘preservation of all rights. How happy they should be In knowing they hud such a powerful weapon with whleh to defend them selves and their Interests. They know that tho average council man and politician love ballots as well or better than a goat loves tin cans, and other things he has no business to handle, and they also know that with that powerful weapon, which belongs only to free men, they can force their servants to do their will. We have all been taught from in fancy that our republican government, national, state and municipal, Is a gov ernment of the people, for the people, by the people, with the beat of the peo ple (women) left out. When the blessed forty-nine (49) get to work on the charter revision busi ness, let us hope thnt they will see the utter absurdity of taxing women who own property without granting them the power of exercising their undoubt ed right to vote for men (and women) who will carry out their wishes In an open-handed way, without star cham ber proceedings of any kind. Finally, let mo tell you that the ma jority of women want a perfected Australian ballot, the Inttletlve and referendum, woman suffrogo and ell the other good things women should have hod a hundred years ago. And wc ex pect you. Mr. Editor, to fight our bat tles for us. for you ore one of the few true knights of the twentieth century which Victor ituko predicted would be the woman's century. Help us to come Into our own. We are a feeble folk. Very truly. siary l. McLendon, President Georgia Woman Suffrage As sociation. Atlanta, May 20. put up Roosevelt and make his election unanimous has this significance: Clews, a Republican, Is a Well street banker, and thus belongs to the element which Is popularly supposed to have pro scribed the president. Herq Is a fact ot much greater sig nificance: Many stalwart Republican papers, situated as far apart geographi cally as The Newark Advertiser, The Pittsburg Gazette (the oldest paper west of the Alleghanles) and The Min neapolis Journal—to mention only three representative party organs—declare that tOhen a national convention, voic ing an overwhelming popular demand, nominates a man for president,-It Is his duty to accept, regardless of his own personal preferences and regardless also of any previous'utterances which he may have mado. Many things can take place between now and the opening of the conven tlons twelve months henca which might alter the political situation and make present forecasts vain. It Is only fair to say, however, that some of the enemies whom President Roose velt hoe made and whom he Is now making are by their enmity to him raising up new allies for him among the people every day. In the past few years the United States has seen many political preju dices discarded, many prepossessions challenged, many parallels pushed aside and many precedents abolished. It is altogether possible that 1908, In tho Republican convention and at the polls, may end the career of another tradition. Army-Navy Orders MOVEMENT OF VESSELS. ANOTHER TERM FOR ROOSEVELT. Chnrles M. Harvey In Leslie's Weekly. But If the thing which Is expected by many Democrats and many Republi cans really comes to pass, tile pajier which can say “1 told you so" with the greatest pride and emphasis Is the New York World. As long ago aa March 28, 1945, a few weeks after hi* Inaugura tion for hla firs: elected term In the White House, that paper predicted that "Theodore Roosevelt will be renomi nated for president of the United States la 1908, and he will be re-elected.” The fact that Henry Clews, of New York Joins John T-mule Grave*, of Washington. May 22.—The following orders have been issued: Army Orders. » Following changes coast artillery or. tiered: Captain James A. Shlpton, from Schenectady to school of submarine flenfenses. Fort Totten, ae disbursing officer, relieving Captain Robert E. Cal- lan, who will proceed to office chief of artillery, Washington, relieving Captain Lloyd England, who will proceed to Forty-eighth company, coast artillery. Recruit John W. Higgins, Infantry recruit depot, Columbus barracks, hav ing enlisted under false pretenses, dis charged without honor from the army. First Lleuteant Haywood B. Hansel), assistant surgeon from Washington to Fort Snslllng, relieving Captain Walter D. Webb, assistant surgeon, who will rroceed to general hospital, Washing ton barracks; Captain George L. By- roade, retired from Culver Military Academy, Culver, to home; First Lieu, tenant Francis W. Clark, coast artil lery, to Artillery School, Fort Monroe. Private (first class) Auburn Moore, signal corps, from Fort Omaha to Fort William Henry Harrison; Major John B. McDonald. Fifteenth cavalry, to Fort Ethan Allen; First Lieutenant Parks L. Willard, signal corps, from office chief signal officer, to Seattle; Corporal Edward Ward, signal corps, from Key West barracks to Fort Wood; Post Commissary Sergeant Joshua E. Banks, from Fort Oglsthorpe to Fort Dade, relieving Post Commis sary Sergeant Harry Corcoran; Ser geant Walter Baker, troop A, Sixth cavalry, Fort Meade, discharged from the army In the Interest of the United States. # Nety Orderi. Read Admiral G. A. Converse, re tired, detached duty aa chief bureau of navigation, navy department, to duty as president hoard on construction; Midshipman V. Baker, detached Ken tucky to Des Moines; Assistant Sur geon W. H. Short, to naval hospital, New York; Warrant Machinist R. J. Vickery, to qavy yard, Boston; Ensign A. T. Brlsbln died on Tacoma, May 21. Movements of Vessels, ARRIVED—May 21, Maryland, Kobe; Rhode Island, nt navy yard, New York; Saturn, at 'Sandlego; Sterling, at Newport News; Boston, at San Francisco. SAILED—Mray 20, Morris, from navy yard, New York, for Newport. May 21, Rocket, from Washington for Norfolk;*Rhode Island, from Tompklns- villo for navy yard. New York; Nnn- shan, from Kobe for Cavite. Surplus and Profits (Earned) $589,894.68 These figures, according to our last published statement, rpre- sent the amount we havo accumulated from our earnings mce organization fot the protection of our depositors. This sum culd be deducted from our resources pt any time and there would tin remain a balance sufficient to pay every dollar due depositors nd leave our''capital of $200,000.00 unimpaired. MADD0X-RUCKER BANKING CO. and scalawags until 1870, nnd In 187; the legislature gave for public school! 8125,000. This amount has grown, unit In lOft* nut r,f Gnnrffln'■ llmllnd manna In 1906, out of Georgia’s limited mean?, they gave 21,711,844. Georrla provides free tuition for all her children between the ages of 6 nnd 18 years. No stste In this union has dene more according to means to educate her children than Georgia, and the citizens of no state in this union have accom Vino Rich in Rubber. A vine has been discovered In according to reports, which contains m,: pihbrr than any other known plant Th!!! » "° much rubber In the stems' that . .old* together even after ttTmEr of’** I’OTHI la hmlran ’ lu Should a method he discovered " acting the rubber, It la behaved that fi?, .emery of the vine will gre*.tv will greatly afTect piianea as muen aince our civuf The chorqcierletJcg of tho vln#» «... * . war as Georgia. Your city, with overjnotleed ou a cocoa plantation. ChRSLW 3,000 when surrendered to Sherman, the *>«*ers observed the wonderful «laatieirl vS pushmataha of the federal army. * * roT « tfcam intff Sanwiocki Atlanta waa sacked and destroyed, •>•*•*• tbe more eiaS * id scarcely 10 per cent of her build-! upon 7 investigation the vine wn, f6lin „ Uktflte contain lo to ti per cent of tSS?\ * W .L*.2» V.“.! M sbienco of eiSSfii and Ing. Ief(. has risen, Phoenix today we have more than halt ax much _ wealth as the state had after Shermanoll and rosin. The via* la gild to"»Vn» I and his followers left It. fxtsoslrsly In nmny parts af Mexico. * . When thla" government made war on ■ " our southland, Georgia, by the United States census, was tha seventh wealth. test state In the union per capita, and., after we had been robbed by the In vaders, losing about 87 per ctnt of our wealth, we were among the poorest. Why, Massachusetts, at the end of the war, hod one-half as muoh wealth as the fourteen Southern states. The record of Georgia Is without a parallel In the world. France had a Ivhlto population of 87.000. 000 and after her war paid a war Indemnity of 81,000,000,000, nnd the world was amazed. Georgia, with less than a million of white people, lost 2530.000. 000, ant) In twenty-five years after the war had a credit equal to any state In the union and floated a 8 1-2 per cent bond ot par. In 1905, her cot ton crop alone sold for more money than the taxable value of the whole stato after the war. Sixty per cent of this crop was planted and mode by our white people. All honor to Georgia lonor to Georgia W. B. BURROUGHS, M. D. WHEN HE IS KING OF 8PAIN. But when ha'I* king He la likely to find It Injurious. —W. J. Lampton. RAILROAD ACCIDENTS. (Broken rest and broken dlaclptlne have juny more fatalltlei to their seoru t — broken rulla.—New York World cdltorla Truo, true; alas, too true. These words ao fitly apoken; And yet what rnnkee tlieae fatal breaks Itemolns unbroken. Strides of London Amusements The proposition to build another theater specially for London's 20,400 amateur play- era calls attention to th. wonderful .trldes mad. In went years by amusement places Id tbe British mstropolla. Thirty years ago there wera only Arty- five theaters and practically no music halls 111 London: today there are nearly 800- theaters, music sad concert halls, with a dally attendance ot 150.000 persona lu a | ■ son. (bars ware only tlireo theatrical a "on the road" In England; now nearly 300, nnd for each of theao, of roorae, a theater has to be found eneb week. whole of Great Ilrltnfn, requiring fewer than 8,000 actors, actresses and employees. At present there are over 1,000 thetter* and halln. with 12,000 performers and employees. It was found. In 1894, that 1.9 per cent of London's population attended theatrical por- fonnonces; fast year the percentage waa 2.9. / ' “Fudge,” The .expression "Fudge!” which la card ao often nowadays la not a new " >. On the contrary, its origin dates k to tha reign of Charles II, when ere was a sea captain who was ted Fudge. o matter how unsatisfactory his .age, this nautical man always re- Dnert with an endless string of pre- Mterous tales of great deeds and sue. * i. Hla propensity for falsifying be. :e so well known that whenever one was heard telling a queetlon- explolt, it became the cuatom to ■Oh, you Fudge It!” ot Worth a Tinker's — jtrary to the general Impression, thehrase, "not worth a tinker's dam" le of Innocent character. It orlgl- natrim a device that tinkers have useftrom time Immemorial whenever theylpslred to flood a portion of their workWth Bolder. It Is a circular wall <Rgh raised about the rim of a piatoyith a turned over edge, and ■ervelto prevent the melted solder fr «! n . leaping. The material from wmchbch a wall or dam is made Is wortfflh after having been used once. Upon U basis, naturally enough, the expresfa came to be employed to charactUa anything that wes of onty temper.-} usefulness. “Humbug.” ’Ttumbug” owes Its origin to a mint) worthless Irish coin. King !*,yl a lot of money made at the Dubllnmint, Its Intrinsic value was comflntlvely nothing, twenty qhllllnga oL being worth only two pence sterlll William If, after the battle of Boyne, ordai that the crown and halfcrown ofhs mint be taken as pen- **” y. respectively. The metal out of which le was called by the (pronounced “Oom- le the word “hum- :ethlng with the ap- but In reality prac- ny and hal soft mixture the coin wag Irish "Ulm-r bug"). Thus bug." mean! pearance of itcally worthies* Of course, a larg* part of the patronage of the city's amusement'place* la by visit ing foreigner*; the United fttntos, Canada and continental Etiropo supplying enough "transients” each season to maka many of the placet pay handsomely. About $5,000,000 n year Is expended In running the thirty-two lic*t known theaters of Ixtudon'a West End. The cost of pro- CORRECTING SOME ERRORS A3 TO GEORGIA'S ILLITERACY. Editor of The Georgian: I read In Sunday's Atlanta Journal an article on “Popular Education," by Rabbi David Marx. He says that we have, according to the United States census of 1900, per cent illiterate children between the ages of 10 and 14 years, and exclaims ‘what an appalling burlesque on the wealth, • • • progress, etc., of our state.” Again he says, the average il literacy In tlie United States for native white males over 10 years of age is about 5 per cent; that of Georgia la 13 per cent. Further on In his article, he says "three-fourths per cent of our white children In this city, between the ages of 10 and 14 year*, were In 1903, Illiterate," etc. Yesterday I visited the state school commissioner's office, but failed to aee him. I procured a copy of his report for 1903, which shows a total school population of Atlanta 22,583. Of this amount, *82 were Illiterate, less than S 1-2 per cent; If wc count only the white children, less than 2 per cent. Now, let us take Savannah, the sec ond city In wealth and school popula tion, we find one-half of l per cent of the white children between the ages of 6 and 10 are unable to read or write. This Is the lowest percentage of Il literacy shown by any city of tta equal population in the world. 1 do not have access te the United Stntea census, and I leave the city tomorrow. In 1905, the while people of Georgia ■ (it to vna on llAA Ailrt ... 1.11 — p«i<l taxes on $557,000,000, white the ►lorsd people paid $20,000,000. Notwithstanding out negroes pay less than 3 1-2 per cent of our property tax. duclng a playsvtriffs ROM « week, r«ry lug between $2,000 and $7,(00. In nridltion, them Is tho orlglnnl coat of production, which way range from n few thominim dollars at a sronll house to n i 100,000 pantomime or spectacular drama at )rury Lane. Something About the Brain. That portion cf the substance of the brain which Is known as gray matter Is supposed, according to tbe highest author* ltles, to be most Intimately related to In tellectual action. Pometltnc* curious aggre gations of gray matter ore found In par* tlculnr parts of the brain and Dr. Oswald Morton has recently suggested that these may be the cause‘of the extraordinary men tal powers occasionally exhibited by per sons whose general Intellectual cnpecjty hardly rises above that of Idiots. Such powers, or aptitudes, always relate to some special faculty, like memory, without In cluding other faculties. The aggregations referred to might ex plain the tuarvidous memory for music ex hibited by "HUnd Tom," and tbe still more extraordinary power of Ilelnecker, the Child of Luberk, who llred lu the early t nrt of the elghteiuttli century; nml who new the chief Incidents of tbe Pentateuch at the nee of one year, had mastered ell of snored history nt two venrs and was Intimately acquainted with modern nnd profane history nud geography, nnd spoke French and Latin, besides his native tongue at the age of three. When four years old he died. With reference to whnt hns t*en called the relation of "nrnfn light ■ and dreams." Professor Wcrlpturc, of Vale, once stated that he had icanon to thluk that the faint light which Is seen In darkness, or with closed eyes, and which appears In the form of rings, waves nud Irregular figures, Is due, not ns Is generally supposed, to chemi cal changes going ou In the retina, but to something ocmrrina In the brain. He proved that It should be colled ••cerebral light." % This cerebral light appears to be located In those higher centers of tbe brain thnt •re connyted with visas! memorlt's nnd Imagination*. A close reiaWon has been ob served between these cerebral light figures und the couteuts of dreams, and Profeaaor Scripture suggested thnt the hallucinations produced by drugs, like hashish, may lw ■Imply modifications of such figures. «H| Tho history of L y a nc9 mav b§ read In It* battifi V. The "Banzai!” °? the Japan*"*. tIV-paghaxhballah!" Of the Irish, and own "Hurrah!” have found their, L ln far ln history. \ Although many aiL rttle , have de . clared that th# wot "hurrah" I. a development of the ) w |,h "Hosan- Bah," the consensus c, p i n | on nmv is that It Is a corruptloB the al u'i™t battle cry of the wild ,raemen. "Tur ale!" meaning, 'Thor s ui i" For merly the word was ni P( j "Huzza” and pronounced "Hurt " j n one form or another It Is uj by almozt every nation. Sound Advict Many friends of a wcll-l, wn horze. man aro still amazed ov(j,ix expe rience with a faker. Som^tle time ago he owned a horse whl<bothercd h|m a great deal by foaming a r | V . eltng at the mouth. At last , day he saw an advertlzement In one the pa per" of a new and euro remeif 0 r the trouble. The price asked w*s,| y n V o shillings, and he concluded It V sure ly worth that to him, »o he , t t )„ money along by the next po»t\ few days later came back a neat t> wr n- ten letter, with thn following vice: "Dear Sin—Teach the horse t, p |i.- —Tit-Bits. The witty Blabop Hanford Olmsted, of Colorado, st ajlinuer lu_ Denver, said apro pos of ttslituitb breaking: "I wit* talking to nit enateru clergyman the other day nliout hi* rhurch sttendanee. ;• 'I .oppose.' | Mid. 'that In ynitr dla- trlet rnlu nffeeta the attendance conclder- shlr’ - "He nulled faintly. “ 'Indeed, yea.' he nald. 'I hardly have s varnut test trtten It It too wet for golf or motoring.' Los Angolea Timer. Comemrcisl Value of Flita. o»-* shailing ond a hi\f a pound! Yea, thla Is the price of dead file* la London. Yon did not know that tbe pestiferous Insects bad a commercial value, did yon? Those sold In London are eangbt lu Brasil «r.i .hipped to England l.y the lotrrol. «en living alou* the Amazon make tltelr living hy catching file* ami sending them to Europe, where they are nor.-ho.v-3 as food for cniMtry bird* and gold Hah. poiiml of We* formerly ciart 5-ponee. the Increanod demand n-otlte-1 In « rtao Gtnertl Kurokl. If General Kurokl Is not on* qhe most Impressive exhibits at Jametm It will be because the American pti* have forgotten the battle of the >j and hit brilliant victories tubsequey a* commander of. the right wln*( Oyama's army In Manchuria. In Ku kl we have as a visitor one of the abb of living soldiers. Nevertheless, first thought on landing In Amerh wss of the Japanese school children i San Francisco, for whom he made graceful and friendly pled, auggeatlni a contrast truly Japanesc.v-New lort Sun. < The ancient civilisation of JUroe Indod-J the doll ss tn Instructive plnythlne mr children. Wrestling Is the popular sport ft PerdJ; lrent tournament* art held to awi'i** * iMHisala. a6 Alatelets THE KODAK HOUSE A complete sleek latest m" e Kodaks 21.00 to 215.00. Hpecl* 1 equipments to onler. FnU hne fresh Kodak supplies of all Expert Kodak finishing M*' 1 ot ' ders given prompt attention. 14-WHITEHALL, 12S PEACHTREE. (Candler Building-)