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MBHR B THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY. JULY 4, 1WT. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NEWS) JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, Pre»ldent. Published Every Afternoon. (Except 8unday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY. At S Weet Alabama Bt.. Atlanta, Oa. Subscription Rates: One Tear Dr CarrI&r, Per Week *° Telephones connecting all depart ments. Long distance terminals. 8m!tb A Thompson, adrertlslnf rep resentatives for all territory outside of Georgia. If you have anv trouble setting THE GEORGIAN* AND NEWS, telephone the circulation department and have It promptly remedied. Telephones: Bell 492? main; Atlanta 4401. It If desirable that all communica tions Intended for publication In, TUB GEORGIAN AND NEWS be limited to J0O words In length. It Is Imperative that they be signed, as au evidence of good faith. Rejected manuscripts will TIIE GEORGIAN AND NEWS prints no unclean or objectionable advertis ing. Neither docs It print whisky or any liquor ads. OUR PLATFORM: THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS stands for Atlanta’s own ing Its own gas and electric light plants; as It now owns Ita wntfr works. Other cities do this and g»€ gas as low ns 60 cents, with a profit to the city. This should be done at once. THE GEORGIAN AND NKW8 believes that If street railways can lie operated successfully by European cities, as they arc, there Is no good reason why they can not be so oper ated here. Rut we do not believe this can be done now, and It may be some years before we are ready for so big au undertaking. Still Atlanta aboum set Its face In that direction NOW, AN EFFORT TO SHELVE CULBERSON. The rumor that Tho New York Sun is conducting a deflnlte and personal cruiade throughout the South and Weat In behalf of Senator Culberson for the presidency should be rocelved with grave concern by the friends of the Texas statesman. The New York Sun la the recognized organ and exponent of Pierpont Morgan and Wall' street. When this paper, a confessedly stalwart Republi can, goes out of Ita way to conduct a campaign for a Southern Democrat, It is calculated to carry a deep and permanent Injury to every prospect of that candidate’s success. Wo sound the alarm here to The Houston Post, and to other friends of the Texas statesman, that this destructive agency Is at work to the un doing of Texas' favorite son. For whether It be an earnest belief on the part of the Wall street organ that Senator Culberson It as conservative as Alton B. Parker and for this reason as desirable to vested Interests, or # whether The Sun Is Impressed with the popularity and tho possible success of the Texas senator and desires to crush him beneath the weight of Ita affirmative ad vocacy. we do not know and It doea not matter. We only know that every real friend of the Texas senator should re pudiate any effort that comes from The New York Sun to kill Charles A. Culberson by the . cruelty of Its championship. If we can help The Houston Post In this emergency we shall be glad to do so. 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 as often as desired. The Bull Dog and the Children. The savage and square-jawed ani mal whose possession as a pet has never yet been quite clear to our ap preciation, is beginning to arouse a protest among a great many thought ful people who have no bull dog but who have several children In their possession. The recent event In East Point and other events scarcely less terrifying. In tho city of Atlanta, have served to call public attention to the menace which exlets In the possession of these powerful animals during these sultry days. A bull dog. when he cbooBes to be, la one of the most dangerous of animals. He Is without fear, and when ho see* fit to take hold Is without surrender and without remorse. It took six men and a railroad aplke to beat off a bull dog from a child In East Point. It may take bb many at any other time. The owners of these grewsome pets claim that a bull dog Is amiable to ward Individuals and rarely attacks those with whom he Is acquainted. All of which may bo very true, but wo are qonnt'lled to suggest tho fact that the bull dog Is sometime* very discriminating In the quality and quantity of his friends, and sometimes moat Ind'scrlmlnatlng In his disposi tion to plant his teeth In the pants or the throat of an Individual. To Bay the least of It, those who own bull dogs In thickly settled com munities ought to exercise great care In keeping them from doing harm. Every bull dog ought to wear a mux- sle, every hull dog should be kept In chains or confinement, or perhaps bet ter still, every bull dog should be com pelled to give way to a pet equally aa playful If not so bloody. We trust that the bull dog fancier* of Atlanta will remember the warn ing made by the heated season that is now upon us and that the children and the parents may be protected from the danger which comes from the animal's change of temper and the change of season. Let us concede that the weather It hot enough for us. The prohibition wave seems to be •weeping the country^ Only to think that Fairbanks, of all men, should have given his name to a cocktail. The News and Courier is good enough to think that there is enough of Hoke Smith to divide between The Georgian and The Journal. Theodore Shonts announces that his daughters must marry men who ac complish things. He forgets the presi dent Is not a widower. 'Col. George Harvey," of Harper's Weekly, who has been pouring hot shot into Mr. Roosevelt, comes back from Europe to confess in his Journal that the president is ths most popular man In the world. OUR CHARLESTON AND AUGUSTA CONTEMPORARIES. Our esteemed and distinguished friend of The Augusta Herald aeems much disturbed over the editorial Intimacy which exists between The Georgian and The Charleston News and Courier. We seriously regret to have aroused any protest 1n the bosom of' one whom we esteem so highly and admire so much as We do the editor of The Herald. The fact Is that we really like. In these later days, The Chsrieston News and Courier. Its editorial page Is one of the most thoughtful and Interesting that cornea to this office. Wo agree with a great many of the conclusions which the Charleston paper reaches, and on the other hand we differ most radically and frankly from many of the opinions which It sees lit to express. But since the great American game of baseball has made ua more nearly one with our brother Hemphill, we have not failed to note a mellow ing of bis paper's policy, and an Increasing kindliness of Its attitude to ward this city of Atlanta which it has always heretofore protested. And wo do not hesitate to say that In these later and better days It has come to be an equal pleasure to shiver a lance or to drink a lemonade with the redoubtable Charlestonian who may not always carry our con victions as to his wisdom but who never loses our respect for his absolute sincerity and a certain consistency of bourbonlsm which has never brok en and never changed since we have known him. In equal measure we may say that we enjoy the brilliant and fear less editorials of Tho Augusta Herald, and If we quote The Charleston pa per oftener. It isn't that we love Phlnlzy loss or Hemphill more, but be cause the foil of distance, tho clash of steel across the border line, seems to give a little more of pungency to controversy and of pleasure to agree ment. PUT SOUTHERN BRED NEGROES IN CHARGE. It Is a very Interesting decision of the Nashville board of education to employ only native born and native bred negroes as teachers In the colored schools of that city. We see plainly the basis of this determination among the Tennes see authorities. As The Knoxville Sentinel well says, a Southern negro educated un der tho Influences of the Southern white man and brought up In a Southern environment la Inoculated, so to speak, with Southern senti ments and impulses. He has a conception of the true relations existing between the Southern white man and the negro, and he knows by ex perience and training that bo should keep within the limitations of this relation. Ths Northern negro, on the contrary, is permeated with many fool ish Ideas, many false notions and conceptions coming from the foolish philanthropy of tho North, of the treatment that should bo accorded from the white man to the negro and from tho negro to tho white man in the South. We have no doubt that much damage has been done to the establish ment of a proper relation among the races by the thoroughly unwise and sectional conceptions which these Northern teachers, white and black, bring down to teach the mass of their fellow negroes in tho South. We nro progressing now in respect to the race question under some favorable and promising conditions. We should be greatly loth to have these conditions, Illy established as they sre. unsettled In their progress by the unreal and unnatural Ideas promulgated by negro educators who are trained In Northern schools. It la the policy of this soctlon of the country to give tho negro a com plete elementary education coupled with manual training in lines to which the Individual Is best adapted aud this with a view to tho negro's earning his livelihood. But we may be sure that If our schools are fitted entirely with ne groes or with white people who come hero filled with tho conception of social equality and of personal equality, our best efforts will be brought to uaught and our race problem so far from approaching a possible solution Is likely to drift more and more Into antagonism and chaos. Wo shall watch the Nashville experiment with more than ordinary In terest and are Inclined to think that it may pffer an admirable suggestion of policy to the educational power* of Georgia and the South. Democracy and the Railroad Problem Writing In Collier's for July «, on Democracy and the Railroad Prob lem. United Stines Senator Charles A. Culberson, of Texas, snys: The future of the Democratic party depends upon Its adherence to Its fundamental principles. If there be anything whatever In the utterances of Its founder. If there be anything In Its traditions and history. If there be anything In tho philosophy of Its profession and action for more than a cen tury. the party must oppose paternalism and centralization. Paternalism Is that theory which would Intrust to government the business of the citizen. It comprises not only paternalism proper, but It Involves the perversion of the functions of government from public to pri vate ends. Centralization Is iho theory which would augment the powers of the stnte governments by encroachments upon the rights of tho people and the political subdivisions of the states, and that theory which would Clothe the Federal government with powers not delegated to It by the constitution. Great as has been the offense of the Republican party In fostering paternalism, In perverting tho functions of government, and In encouraging centralization of power under state and Federal authority any single prop osition In Its history Is as naught when compared with the policy of gov ernment ownership and operation of all railways, which wus tlrst proposed as a party measure by the 1'opullst party and Its predecessors. Nor did tho Federalist party ever propose a measure so radical and far-reaching. Not only would It work a dangerous centralisation of power, both In the state and Federal governments, creating millions of additional partisan offices and controlling at the outset, through political machinery, more than fifteen bll- Uuns of wealth, but this measure eint odlea the most advanced and aggra vated form of paternalism ever seriously offered In a free government, ex cept perhaps ite Populist companion measure, the subtreasury. Much as I respect and admire and honor some who advocate this dogma, 1 con not conceive that the future of the Democratic party lies along this path. It could only lead to party stultification, and to the corruption, subversion and destruction of Its vital principles. Such a doctrine. Indeed, Implies and presupposes that the principles of the party are unsulted to the tlmee; that Individualism Is gone; that centralization Is-wise, and that the govern ment Is best which governs most. As tho doctrine Is based upon the prop, nsltlon that public ownership Is necessary wherever competition Is Im practicable, Its logical and ultimate end Is government ownership and op eration of every business susceptible of monopoly, whether of carrier, pro ducer. or dealer, and this Is the essence of Socialism. • The hone and the future of the party rest, rather. In the preservation of Its ancient landmarks and the maintenance of Its organic faith. These In clude the control and regulation of all public utilities and all property charged with a public use and trust, and If courageously applied they will be found equal to every emergency which con confront us as a people. Instead, therefore, of turning to new and foreign dogmas, let us lift up the old ban ner. and declare old-fashioned truths. These truths are at the very root and foundation of free Institutions, and through them alone can the government which the fathers conceived be preserved and maintained, and Uie future of the Democratic party be assured. COURT SCENE 10 YEARS HENCE The prisoner took his place upon the witness stand. A careless smile played upon his lips at he took a cigarette from his mouth and blew the i-moke In the Judge’k face—that worthy coughing violently much to the merriment of the court room. "Upon what grounds." the prisoner was asked, "did you shoot up tills man, his wife and four children?" “What else could 1 do?” petulantly asked the one on trial. “A cer tain fnan told a friend of mine who In turn told me thht .this man had said my dog was killing his chickens—and so I went for him and his fam ily with a gun." "I can prove," shouted the prosecuting attorney, "that this man here had no dog. and the other fellow never owned a chicken In his life. I—’’ . "That has nothing to do with tho case.” replied the Judge, "we must bass our proceedings upon what the prisoner heard—not upon what act ually happened.” “Not guilty," remarked the foreman of the Jury ten minutes later. —The Tennessean. Some Watchwords For Democratic Success By EX-SENATOR E. W. CARMACK, of Tennessee, In Hsrper's Weekly. To regain power the Democratic party must be courageous and demo cratic. It must be brave enough to Bay what It thinks, and brave enough not to say what It doea not think. Boldness In the wrong la stronger than timidity In the right. The party that has the audacity of Its wickedness will triumph over the party that has not even the courage of Its convictions. The time la ripe for a renascence of the constitution, and. therefore, for a campaign that will present the fundamentals of Democratic faith. A strict—or let us rather say an honest and faithful—construction of the constitution, which, being Interpreted, Is, "The support of our state governments In all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwark against antl-Republlcan tend encies. “The preservation of the general government In Its whole constitu tional vigor, as the sheet-anchor of our peace at horn eand our eafety abroad." i To resist with the utmost energy every unconstitutional axtension of Federal power aa against the statee, and of the executive power as against other departments of the government. In our foreign policy to keep well within the "shadow of our rock- safety," the counsels of Washington and the maxims of Jefferson. To cast out the devil of militarism from the councils of the nation and the hearts of the people, and to put aside all dreams of conquest and co lonial empire. To make legitimate uee of all the powers of the Federal government to suppress monopoly, but so as not to give countenance and support to the deadliest monopoly of all—the monopoly of power In the government at Washington. Rigidly to regulate and restrain the great railroad corporations, which, being natural monopolies, have a power or oppression too great to leave un checked—but disclaiming any sympathy for the policy of government own ership of the railways. To Institute a wise economy In public expenditures. Resolutely to set about a reformation of the tariff with the ultimate purpose to make revenue the only object of taxation. Such, It seems to me, should be the policy of the Democratic party, and such should be the Issues of the next campaign. ARMY-NAVY ORDERS —AND— MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS Army Orders. Washington, D. c., July 4.—Captain Edgar A. Fry, Thirteenth infantry, from transport Sherman, to report to commanding general, department of California, for duty pending arrival Thirteenth Infantry at San Francisco. First Lieutenant Samuel R. Gleaves, first cavalry, detailed to attend en campment First and Second regiments, national guard of Tennessee, at Wa- verly, July 16, and edcampment Third infantry, national guard of Tennessee, near Knoxville, August 6. Resignation of Chaplain Paul T. Brockmann, Twenty-ninth Infantry, accepted to take effect September 1. Corporal Edward Ward and Private Joseph E. Barrett, signal corps, Fort Wood, report to chief signal officer at Washington. Captain Michael J. Lent- hun, general staff, detailed to report joint army and militia coast defense exercises, July 15, In the artillery dis trict of New London. Navy Orders. Rear Admiral Q. C. Reiter, to he placed on retired list, July 6; Captain A. P. Naxro, detached Brooklyn, to command Wabash; Lieutenant Com mander C. M. McCormick, detached navy yard, Mare Island, to bureau of ordnance, navy department. Movements of Vessels. ARRIVED—July 2, Yankton, at navy yard, New York; Prairie, at League Island; Des Moines at Eastport, Me. SAILED—July 2, Talbot and Manly, from League Island for Annapolis; July 2, Glacier from Cape Cod bay for Tompkinsvllle; Brutue, from Tomp- klnsvllle for Newport News; Yankton, from North River for navy yard, New York; Lebanon, from Bradford for Lambert's Point. Truxton ordered detached second torpedo flotilla and assigned to reserve torpedo flotilla; Lawrence ordered commissioned at navy yprd, League Island, and assigned to second torpedo flotilla. HERE COMES AN “ANTI.” To the Editor of The Georgian: Referring to the proposed legislation prohibiting the sale of Intoxicating liquors within the state, I am not in favor of any such law, as It has been thoroughly demonstrated time and time again that prohibition does not pro hibit, and If. therefore, the proposed bill Is passed the revenues of this and other cities In the state will be se riously depleted without any good re sults being accomplished. With the object, however, of reduc ing to the minimum the evils which have heretofore resulted from the op portunities given the laboring class, and particularly the colored race, to Indulge In Intoxicant*, I am much In favor of restricting the sale thereof to a .greater extent than at present, and beg, therefore, to submit the follow ing suggestions: 1. That no licenses for the sale of Intoxicants be Issued to Independent saloons or barrooms. 2. That licenses for the sale of in toxicants be issued only to orderly con ducted hotels or Inns, permission being given them to operate a bar In con nection therewith. 3. That the operation of barrooms In connection with hotels or Inns be re stricted as follows: One barroom only to be permitted to each 2,000 of the population of the cities or towns in which located. In towns of less than 10.000 popu lation the hotels or inns In which bar rooms are operated to embrace not less than ten sleeping rooms. In cities of over 10.000 and less than 25.000 population the hotels In which barrooms are operated to embrace not less than fifteen sleeping rooms. In cities of over 25,000 and less than 50.000 the hotels to embrace not less than twenty sleeping rooms. And in cities of over 50,000 not less than twenty-live sleeping rooms. AU hotels or Inns operating barrooms to be subject to rigid Inspection, to see that they are conducted In an or derly and cleanly manner, both as to their sleeping rooms, dining rooms and barrooms, authority being given to the mavor or other properly authorised of. tidal In each community to revoke li censee when conducted otherwise. I believe this plan can be worked successfully, and that the effect would be to practically do away with the chief objections to the sale of Intoxicants which at present exist. A. MADDISON. to nlnrm the stnte. If this trial nnd ver« diet establish a precedent in Virginia, here after when n woman charges a man with nti offense ngnlnst her honor, snd relates It to n male member of the family nnd so In flames his pssslou as to cause n "brain storm," such a man will be Justified In slating the person accused. It will matter not whether the woman’s story be trap or false; whether It be an exaggeration or a pure Invention. Not a word of testimony can be lntcnduced in court to Impench the witness. The only thing necessary will be to make the Jury believe that she told such a story to tho prisoner at the bar nnd that the shock of it deprived hint of bis reason for the moment. If the prisoner was once a drunkard nnd had Injured his brain and weakened hla will power by strong drink, so much the better for bla case. He will bo less responsible in law than otherwise he would have been. Can any doctrine more dangerous than this he Imagined? It Is simply astounding. We have the Southern Instinct. We un law. If this doctrine he accepted In Virginia it wilt be Impossible to convict any man who has murdered another, provided only he can Induce some woman in his family to swear In court that abe told him the necessarily Involved? If ft man bears from any source n charge ngnlnst another which so enrages him as to produce a brain storm, whether the story be true or not, he Is jus tified In committing murder. This must not be the practice In Virginia. We are carrying the "unwritten law" and the doctrine’ of irresponsibility to absurd and dangerous extremes. Public sentiment must bo aroused and crystallized, nnd there must lie a radical revision' of the criminal law by the next legislature. A LARGE EMORY IN SPIRIT. To the Editor of The Georgian: Your editorial yesterday on "College Pres idents nnd the Confidence of Students’’ should lie read by every nlumnun of every Georgia college, nnd especially by every itlumnus of Emory College. It Is an old saying worthy of all acceptation nnd appli cation that no administration can succeed In the highest sense which falls to hind with great, strong tendons of mnnly affec tion nnd respect The student l»ody and the faculty to the personality of the executive. No amount of Intellect or ability in any line can atone for the lark of n warm human friendship between n college president nnd his boys. I bindings null finances do not compare to this Itesutlful relation. If this inability to attract the trust and devotion of the student body lie present, the training of toys Into strong, capable, good men de- B clienttes Into the hearing of lessons aud le observance of rules. Whenever tills friendly fellowship be tween president nnd teachers nnd students Is lacking the power of the college to hold nnd highly Influence students is sadly ah- sent, and after graduation the alumni do uot exhibit th« greatest affection nnd love for their alma mater. The same general facts apply to the relation between n presi dent and fill faculty. There must be on af fectionate rcgnrd nnd respect nnd unified purpose ns to the policy of an Institution, and when these are lacking the relation I* unhnnp.v nnd tin Wise. Differences In snlrlt are hard to define; they are more deflnlte unspoken than spo ken. better felt tbau uttered. We know that the spirit of a tnnn la tho unified pur pose snd tendency of his speech and acts that give a constant direction to bis life. We think it Is evident that n man or an Institution may b# progreaalve nnd decent at the same time, may live-In the spirit of the age, and still be religions. Progress doea uot mean evil, neither doea the wor ship of custom or the pursuit of tradition mean righteousness. Not slothful in spirit means progress. There are hundreds of alumni who want their alnta mater to mold opinion as well as follow the beaten paths of custom for custom's sake alone; to gen erate in her students and alumni a wonder ful spirit of lore and enthusiasm for their college and teachers, and president, and finally, to lessen the momentum of tradi tion. Human sympathy !* better than nar rowness. the heart of the student body better than ail their books, and love for teachers and president argues more than perfect lessons for future manhood. No college In Georgia doea better work thnn Emory; very few In the South hnve better buildings or equipment: her students are graduated with trained minds; her sons have gone to many lands nnd honored many nations; from her hare come ninny great nnd holy lives, and the state of Georgta bolds her as n great possession. AU these things nre true, nnd yet Emory needs added unto her a larger spirit, nnd we are hoping for a larger Emory in service aud in spirit. In material resources she has done well; In spirit she must broaden and widen and love, mold oniulnn and not so often follow tradition: enlarge her mental and spiritual scope and view; live more with the spirit of the day nnd lean with that of other days, and keen her heart beating In manly sympa thy with the Btroag young hearts «f her Let us bops for a larger Emory In fellow ship and in spirit, . AN EMORY ALUMNUS. Atlanta, Ga., July 4. 1907. BRAKEMAN STRIKE QUICKLY SETTLED Savannah. Ga., July 4.-VThe strike of fifty Seaboard Afr Line brakemeu for high er wages, declared when they quit work last night, was settled before midnight at a conference between officials and a com mittee of the strikers. INDEPENDENCE A few patriots signed the Declaration of Inde pendence; a small army won the victory for our Republic; but millions today celebrate with pride and pleasure the glorious heritage of liberty. * However, in these commercial days a man can best win his independence by establishing his cred it and accumulating a good bank account, which will be enjoyed by himself and in . after years make grateful the family he leaves behind. The Maddbx Rucker Banking Company cordial ly invites new accounts, both commercial and savings WHY LIMITS OF ATLANTA SHOULD NOT BE EXTENDED AS AT PRESENT PROPOSED To the Editor of-The Georgian: I want to submit tho following reasons why ths city limits of Atlanta should not bo extended as proposed: 1. The tax rate or the assessment must be raised to provide the present nnd new territory with sewers, wafer mains, lights, schools, police, street paving, fire protec tion nnd snnltury service. 2. The rity Jms recently voted water bonds for the sum of 1350.000, but only two wards, the sixth and eighth, voted to sus tain them. The Other six wards fnjled to sustnlu them. Hence no bond Issue can be relied upou to furnish money for the cry ing needs of the greater Atlanta. 1 The manufacturing Interests should not Ite forced to pay city taxes; neither should the bnilders of homes lu the, suburbs be taken Into the city against their will. The owntug of suburban homes should l>e en couraged, rather than discouraged, by fore lug city taxes upon the owners. 4. Suburban communities which oppose annexation should bo dealt with In a demo cratic way; the people should be allowed to vote upon the question; If annexed, they will be component parts of the city. • 5. The annexed territory must be repre sented in counrll, nnd there may be some very active members from the new wards. Tbev tuny get more thnn tlielr sbnre of the city s tnoney. For'example, consider West the taxes obtained from the new ter ritory for the next five years will be spent upon said territory, and not elsewhere, on prolmsed. why not postpone annexation? 7. If. na many think, the state will have a prohibition law after 1907 and the 1 quor licenses will be discontinued, the Greater. Atlanta will be Impossible on account of lack of funds to sustnlu her. Indeed, the revenues of the city at present are not suf ficient to meet the reasonable demands of the several wards. Why not await the ac tion of the legislature on that subject **' fore taking on 32 squnro miles of new ter- ^f^Ench town proposed hi the annexation scheme has stipulated th, * t f t W,! never be told nor manufactured within POINTED PARAGRAPHS. (From The Chicago News.) All Isn’t singing that la gurgled. Even the beat phraies of a flatterer aome- tlmea fall flat. Never Judge a woman’s brilliancy by the brlghtueas of her hair. Running for office costs almost as much at ruunlng an automobile. Our Idea of a charming woman Is one who is Ignorant of her chnrma. When a man has a good Job he should take out a fire Insurance policy. The better acquainted a man Is with him self the harder it is to fool him. Figures may not lie, but they are capable of being judggled by crooked accountants. Some men do not care to take vacation trips because their wives insist on going along. her influence. Yon may have noticed that one girl no •ooner breaks a man’s heart tbau another comes along and bandages it up. The first step toward a widow’s second trip to ihe matrimonial altar ts her an nouncement that the will uever marry agulu. v If a man knows that other people are not any bigger fools tbau he is be knows nil ulHJut human nature that Is worth buorlng. S n bis wedding day the average nmu ika ho is getting a peach, but In slier years he may discover that he plucked a < !o “« don't mind getting It In tbe neck If their nelghhnrs jet It Just n, hard. Every man la entitled to a limited nnmher of faulte, but uioet men ezered their limit. When u min la reslly and truly In lore ha thinks there la but one woman In tha world. Many more men would buy guM bricks If they were to l« had on the Installment plan. wife's relations. loot* at first sight is easy, but few people can stand the teat of a long-drawn-out ac quaintance. It l« only nutnral that we should loam to crawl l>efore we walk, hut some men never get beyond the crawling stage. BRlTISHLOmiS - MAY CLOSE DOWN Manchester, England, July 4.—The sud den Jump lu cotton prices following the pessimistic crop estimate In • the United Rtatcs may result in a practical paralysis of the Lancashire cotton Industry. There has Iwen acute depression among the wearers for two mouths, and higher pricet may cause the cloving of all mills. In the Burnley district, arrangements are made to ck**e down a fortnight this month, and It may be prolonged all the summer. their limits. Is not the question of pro viding funds for those towus a serious mat ter? 9. Whv does Decatur desire annexation? Does she expect to give more In taxes than she will get from Atlanta? 10. Is not n well-governed, cleanly, henlthv city with good streets nnd low tax rate better thou a city of large area, covering miles of vacant lands, with poor street*, no lights, no water, uo schools? The county furnishes schools, keeps good roads, mount ed police and a low tax rate. 11. Tho citv of Des Moines, Iowa, has a tax rate of 48.20 upon a 25 per cent valua tion with 64 squnre miles—Atlanta's tax rate is 41.25 upon a 60 per rent valuation with 12 square miles of territory. Rood this statement encourage tbe comiug of manufacturers? 12. It Is submitted that Atlanta should encourage the building of suburban home*, free of city taxes. If water Is supplied, tbe rate to them Is double that charged to residents of the city, and they pay for laying ths pipe: there Is n large profit to the city In this Item. The city Ts at no ex- pense whatever for police, lights, sewers, schools or anything else. On the contrary, your suburbanite is usually a tax payer upon hts business in tbe city and upon hla city realty. He should lie encouraged to own large lots upon which his homo Is built. 13. It la submitted that only thickly set tled sections should be annexed, for the purposes of sanitation, police protection and other city advantages. 14. What doea Atlanta gnJn by acquiring 32 square miles of territory, most of which Is not settled? Our city Is growing apace now. ’TIs well to int her grow naturally an cl keep on growing. Such a boom growth as-expanding nearly four times her present area at one liound Is apt to prove a boom- defer action on the annexation till two or three years hence, nnd submit the matter of the extension to a vote of tho people Interested? TAX-PAYER. OF JULT FOURTH Young Man Fired Revolver Thinking Bullets Were Blanks. b>w York, July 4.—Tbe exhuberance of two young raeu celebrating the Fourth It regnrdeq by the police aa responsible for the death early today of Xlmpa Glronznnte, aged 19, a talloresa, while she was dress ing to go to work. She was standing In front of a mirror when two shots were fin'd suddenly. One bullet struck tbe girl In the forehead, and ahe died without uttering a word. Tbs second bullet pnssed over the beads of two others girls, still in bed, and burled itself In the wall. The police will hold nil .the occupants of the house for witnesses. It Is supposed that one of the two young meg with rooms across the hall fired the revolver, thinking It was filled with blanks. Both of then got away before the arrival of the police. IDENTIFIED NEGRO AS ASSAILANT Richmond, Vs., July 4.—Frank Al len. colored, who Is alleged to have attempted an assault upon Mrs. Har- vie Calls, a young married woman, near South Hill on Monday, wa, brought to tlila city for esfe keeping last night. Allen, who wa, arrested between Lacross and Skelton, wa, trffiight to South Hill for the purpeto of Identification by Ihe young woman. A large crow d had gathered at the station, Mrs. Calls, however, withheld her Identification until the train bear ing the negro was safely on Ite way to Richmond. Allen was Identified by both Mr,. Call, and a negro youth. GEORGIA - INVENTORS GRANTED PATENTS Washington, July 4.—R. W. Bishop, l’« tent attorney, report, the l,«u- of the following patents to resident, of Georgia and Alabama: Cotton harvester, Clifton Corley, At lanta, Ga.; qttacbmont for fireplaces W. H. Daniel, Bessemer, Ale.; eye glasses, I. M. Schwab, Savajinah, Ga.; saw clamp, J. W. Douglas, Augus'a. Ga.; pencil sharpener, W. A. Besson. AshvlUe, Ala.; alr-broke mechanism. G. H. Boswell, Albany, Ga.; • priming press, B. W. Morgan, Atlanta, Ga., as signor to simplex Press Company, sumo place; broomshleld, John Papp*. Atlanta, Ga,; brush for cotton gin* '"homas Brantley, Albany, Oa.; hall- apllce, W. H. Lewis, Sylvester, Os; i ut lock, M. P. Morrison, Atlanta. On.; washing machine J. W. Bedlnsheld, Florence, Ala.: guard for edge, of con- uete paving, William Crenshaw, At lanta, Go., and short turning gear, A. Reed, Fitzgerald, Ga. “MONKEY HOUSE” CARUSO DECORATED London. July 4.—Conferring tho royal <1** ] fre* of tbe Victorian onler on Enrico *-»• raw*, the noted tenor, by Kin* Edward » regarded lu wrnie quarter* here a* M anawer of England to the abnae heap*-* upon the Italian alnger In New York, be waa arrested on account of tfel fawow • monkey house’’ Incident.