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' J fHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TDKSDAT. ATTIJUBT #. 190T.‘ THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NEWS) JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Published Every Afternoon. (Excopt Sunday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY. At 8 West Alebema 8t.. Attente. OS. Subscription Retest TImm Mflitbft *•?! Rf Cnrrltr, lW W#ek t0 Telephone* eonnectlnf tl! deport ments. Lone distance terminal*. Smith * Thompson, adrartlaln* re|V reeentatlree for #11 territory ontsTde or Chicago Offlr. ...... Tribune Building New York Office Potter Bulldlog If you here soy trouble getting TUB GKO it GIAN ASTI NKWH, telephono the circulation department end here It promptlr femetlled. Telepboneel Bell mslnt Atlanta MOL It le desirable that all eotnmunles. tfone Intended for publication In TUB GBOROIAN ANIi SKWB be limited to 100 woi.lt In length. It le lmperell»i 151 not be returnrdunlete eteupe ere eent tor (be purpose. TltE GBOROIAN AND NEWS prints ui unclean of objectionable edTertls- lug. N.ltber does It print wbfsky or any liquor ads. Inn Ita own **»<* electric light Plants, at It now own* Ita water 6S3S .Other rltJea do tbit and jet caa aa low as 60 cents, with a profit to the city. This should he done at once. THE GBOROIAN AND NEWS lielleret that If atreet railways can lie afe. «« V Swf'Awi 3 gi«.s can be done oow, end tt tnsv be some year* before we ere reedy for so big an undertaking. Btlll Atlnntn tboiild let Its tae« In that dlreetlou NOW. Uncle Sara’s drag-net has landed the "fish truit." A London cable says too much bridge la Injuring tnualc. Probably rfifdra to violin music. Well, get ready to begin "digging 1 to help pay that twenty-nine mlllloh dollar Standard Oil fine. The man who Invented Saratoga -chips la dead, but his Invention re mains behind to keep his memory ScHsp. The Pacific coast has another Jap anese problem. Los Angeles Is In fested with k Rang ot Nipponese crooks. OfilcliU refutation Is made of the 'statement that the British head Is •'shrinking. Measurements wore prob ably 'made "the morning afterwards." A Philadelphia paper tails about a "Knot club In tho field." Knocks clubs are getting rather numerous In this presidential game, anyway. ; Turkish troops aro hunting for Rnl- sull. They will feel mighty bad It by some mischance they should find him. Rockefeller dentes that he la to have ft turgienl operation performed. Judge Landlfi, however, holde to tho contrary. < Montpelier. New Jersey, women have organised agalnat "the greed and rapacity of the servant class." The South Isn't the only section with a servant problem. A railroad that hasn’t a taw score of Indictments on hand these daya has no standing at all In the Amalga mated Association ot Indicted Rail road Officials. . The contractor made only 2.100 per eent profit out of painting the Penn sylvania state capltot. Aa a grafter, there was nothing of the piker about him. * • The Korean* say they are ready to die for their country. If we do not mistake the temper of the Japs, they : wfll give the Koreans the opportunity ito "make good" on that assertion. That Clinton. Illlnol*, grand jury Is unwilling to take chances. It de clared that a woman ot that place died from any one ot six poisons, nhd that they were not sure if any of the six were administered to ^er. Retribution Is sometimes mighty (low In getting around, but it comes Anally. A St. Louis baggage-smasher dropped a trunk loadad with dyna-' mite. Local papars gave him very nice obituary notices. - A dispatch says that the strenuous life Is making an Adainless Eden out of Chicago. An Impression has pre vailed that it was the bold-up man doing the Adamless Eden business to Chicago more than anything else. The Montgomery team violated every principle of common courtesy, when, as guests of Mr. William Smith, It greedily gulped two games and refused the host the pleasure of more than an equal share In the other two. It aeem* rather a useless expendi ture of energy and tkopey for Mrs. Selenka to Invade tha wilds of Java hunting for the "missing link," when Newport and other fashionable re sorts are so much more accessible— and more likely to yield result*. THE NEED OF AN EXTRA SESSION. The present governor and th* present legislature are the first In Georgia In many yean that have had the power and the Inclination to do for tho state what need* to be done along many lines, and particu larly with the railroads. ' As fairly as The Georgian ha* tried always to treat the railroads, we are hound to recognise the fact that for years they have been allowed too free a hand In this good state, and, with a little assistance from a few other corporations, have come pretty near running things to suit themselves. Giving the people all the credit they deserve for rising up and speak ing their displeasure at the existing order of tblnga. It must be candidly admitted that Hoke Smith la the man who dared to be a leader and to offer himself as a target for the railroads. He dared to arraign them In the cold facts and figures of their record and to expose them to the pub lic, and It was Hoke Smith who crystallized the sentiment of our peo ple on this evil into a vital force that haa brought the oppressors to their knees. Governor Smith stands today with the outworklngs of bis‘odrrective plana at the threshold of our legislative halls. -He stands today ready to make good every promise he mode In his unparalleled race. Shall wo let anything prevent bla plans being wrought Into laws that will hold hard and fast and regulate those forces that have been working an evil upon Georgia and her people? * No!—a thousand times no! True, we will hnve another regular session of this legislature under the present governor, but there can never come again this supreme oc casion for the legislative fulfillment of pledges solemnly made to a peo ple, and that, too, with til the force and honesty of the governor’s con victions aftd advocacy still fresh and strong npon them. As we have remarked before, prohibition legislation has used up the major portion of this session, and though a great victory has been won, we should not stop here nor neglect the measures that all along have seemed so vital to us and that should go hand In hand with the liquor reform. In the order of their Importance, there are the Candler railroad rate bill, the disfranchisement act, tha antt-pasi law and the campaign fund publicity measure, none of which can be left out, It would see'm, with out seriously disappointing and crippling the administration. Tho general tax act bldB fair to take up a great deal, more time and leave practically no time for the paseage of these other acts. Tho Georgian, therefore. In full cognisance of the expense to the state of an extra session, amounting, we are told, to about $2,000 a day, hopes the governor will call an extra session rather than see matters that mean so much to our stato in Its present and pressing needs, laid aside for twelve months.' If It Is possible to accomplish what must bo done without an extra session, The Georgian will be more than gratified, but the hope Is not well founded. It Is hard for the people to realize—If they have not seen for themselves—how difficult It Is to rush matters where nearly two hundred men are striving each In his own way to represent the best wishes of hla constituents. Often representatives have to be satisfied either with what Is passed or simply with the consciousness that they havo done what they could to prevent Its passage. It is best that we bo careful. We have a general assembly of men that any state would be proud of. They are almost to a man doing the best they can to get through with the work ahead of them. It Is a large body that seems to move slowly, but, thank God, there Is little evi dence that they are being moved by ulterior forces. We are with you, Governor, and we are with you, gentlemen—do the best you can, but it you can't get through, then let the extra session be held for the completion ot the righteous work before you. CHIEF JENTZEN’S STREET FLUSHER. The Georgian Is advised that Chief Jentzen has either given up or postponed his trip to St. Louis to look Into the merits of the "street fiusher,” as used In that city, and for which Council voted expense money on Friday. We have seen these flushers In dally use for years In St. Louis and'ean say without a moment’s hesitation that they are the nearest approach to tho Ideal In atreet cleaning that hag ever been attained. The plan upon which they work is as follows: / Tho machine, In appearance exactly like any of our street sprink lers, Is divided Into two tanks, one large and one small, In lieu of one large tank, aa Is the case with tho common sprinkler. In the common sprinkler the hose la ilmijly screwed to the hydrant and the tank I* filled with water from the city pressure. With the "fiusher," the hose Is hot only screwed on to the hydrnqt, but Is screwed on to the big tank of the fiusher. When tho city pressure Is turned on, the big tank begins to fill with water, and the air having no place to escape, Is forced over and stored in the little tank In front. When the fiusher Is full, there Is al most as much pressure behind the water os there Is In the hydrant, and when tho fiusher travels down a street llko Whitehall or Marietta, fol lowing the middle of tho street, the flushing spouts shoot the water to the gutter with such force that ovary form ot filth—even objects as heavy as brickbats—Is washed to the gutters. Cobblestone streets are cleansed to the deepest crevice*. Usualty a trip In each direction Is sufficient to clean an entire street, and it can all be done at night There la no machinery or complicated working parts to get out of order. A few years ago the city of Ashevlllo, N. C„ found It absolutely necessary to provide a means ot thoroughly washing ltff streets, where so many c insumptlve* expectorate on the pavements. A committee of city officials was appointed to visit tho larger cities and find the best means of doing this. The result was that threo of the largest size flush- era were ordered from St. Louis Immediately and havo been used ever since with very refreshing effect. We do not know who makes the fiusher, and we suppose It Is pat ented. but we do know just what results It gives, and we do not know of any place In the world where It could do more good than on our down-town business streets, whoro men spit Indiscriminately, and where the germs dry and fill the air, as day after day a new layer Is deposited, with no agency to cleanse but the rains from time to time, and with the street sweeper stirring them up with his broom os though they might not circulate sufficiently without his help. Chief Jentzen. you are on tho right track—there Is nothing that ap proaches the fiusher, unless It Is the hose method that Is used each night in cities like Detroit, but up there they haVo five lakes to draw from, while wo have none. You don’t need to Investigate—just get them to send one here on trial, and one demonstration wilt settle the question. MISSISSIPPI THE WINNER IN A CLOSE FINISH. Mississippi has made Its choice of a successor to Senator Money, and It Is the conservative judgment of the people everywhere that the state has acted wisely In selecting Congressman John Sharp Williams over Governor James K. Vardanian. Governor Vardamin belongs to that extreme and hot-headed type that does not harmonise well In a dignified deliberative body like the United States senate. No man question* hla honesty, hla Integrity and his physical and moral courage, but hla heart oftener than his head rules in his speech and actions. He la sentimental and Impulsive, and Ih politics has often been fanatical. Hla remarkable campaign for governor of Mississippi was made and won almost solely on the negro Issue. He advocated the dlsfran- chlsemeut of the negro, and said openly that a negro guilty of assault ought to he lynched. Yet, when elected to tho governorship, he used the full machinery of office to prevent lynchlngs, showing that ho felt the re sponsibilities of his oath as the state’s chief executive. His campaign for the United States senatorshlp was made on the platform of repealing the fifteenth and amending the fourteenth amend ments. That he made a remarkable race there Is no disputing, but the sober judgment of Mlsslsslpplana prevailed' and they elected John Sharp Williams. _ , Williams 1s one of the really big men of the country. He Is In the prime of life, has near sixteen years of practical experience In congress and for tha two past sessions has been tho minority leader. He la a man ot the broadest culture, ot the ripest scholarship and a Democrat of unimpeachable Integrity. More or lest sporadic revolt against hla leadership bat appeared In the past He Is a man of strong convictions, and It Is difficult, nay, almost Impossible, to swing him awgy from them. He ha* not always done things to please all of the minority, but It Is believed that his election In Mississippi Insures his retention as minority leader In the Sixty-first congress. A man of his ability, courage and ^earning will strengthen the South In the highest legislative body of the union. Mississippi, is to he congratulated In her selection of Senator Money's successor. TRIBUTE TO THE GEORGIAN PAID Bl REV. C. A. RIDLEY AT BAPTIST TABERNACLE In the prelude to his sermon at the Baptist Tabernacle Sunday night Rev. C. A. Ridley, the brilliant young Florida preacher, who Is supplying the pulpit of Dr. Broughton during August, paid a marked tribute to The Georgian ms a newspaper and to its editor and publisher. He told: “In speaking of the self-life and self-gratification, It does not seem out of place for me to say that right here in your city during the last few weeks you have had a good illustration of the other elds of this subject— the unselfish side. These days that have just passed have been days In which men's souls have been tried as by fire. I hare not cessed thanking God for the victory He gave us at that time. "Every newspaper man of Influence and power In your city' concerning whom there was any shadow of doubt as to where he would threw his In fluence was being tried. Business men were threatening, saloon men were swearing, lawyers were pleading, and the devil was at work as never be fore to get a muzzle on the dally press of this city. But Is It not now magnificent, and Is It not now glorious, to remember that there was one young man In the newspaper business who could neither be Intimidated nor bought? Of course. I refer to that stalwart cltlsen, that high-toned Chris tian, that manly man—F. L. Seely and his Georgian,' "For six years and more 1 have known and loved John Temple Graves. It he were to edit half a dozen papers I would take all of them, for he has no equal In American Journalism as a writer of editorials; but not until recently did I know that he was associated with such <a man as Seely. In fact, I did not know that there were a nv such men running dally newspapers. My observation of the dally press has been that It was for prohibition un til the voting time came, and then, like our friend, "the gentleman from Bibb,” It has managed to throw Its Influence and vote to the other elde. Thank God, The Georgian did not do that, but came out boldly and helped drive liquor from the state.” SOME REMINISCENCES OF SENATOR PET TVS (A. R. IldM In PHUnnrf Dispatch.) Henator I'ottu** life wat mmle lulmrulile In UPIlli c HU UcmTl B'l II. LUlllj. Ill* IHfllGt nU| dlil not become a man who had been on tho bench, or n neimtor. But be could not pre* vent the publication of ntories about him— tunny of them without the slightest foun dation in truth. The old tfentiemnu. who came to the annate na the successor of Pugh. Iiecause the latter refused to recoin mend him for nn appointment on the ground that he was too old, could no! void acquiring a reputation ns n humorist. Jo com# to the Heirnte Jn*t to show a man thnt you are not too old Is hutnor—for Washington—no matter wbftt it may hare been for Senator I’ugh, who won a little older than Pettus. 'Washington, accustom ed to deluges oi trite rhetoric and worse * tic, mock heroic* nnd *■*'* ‘ * uisn who thinks for his own thoughts In n homely and forceful way. And that Is what Pettus was. Vouug Mr. Ueveyidge, of Indiana, who always knows everything ou every subject, got on the nerves of the »ednte old senator from Alnhama one day. Laying aside the spec tacles which made him look llko pictures of Confucius, the Alabonia senator took tho Indiana senator across hi* patriarchal knee and spoused him: lie took only about Are minutes of the time of tht senate, hut the memory of the cn»tlgat!on still linger*. Ail the old gentleman did was to say that hi* young friend from Indiana reminded him of an old eoloratl preacher who could preach a sermon on ahv text at any time. Mr. Petto* gave flu Illustration. lie quoted a toxt In which the combination of won!*, if Mild hurriedly, sounds ns If tho son* of somebody were sent out to milk u bear to save sonielmdy’t life. The colored prencker fell Into tho trap and preached a sermon about the young men milking u bear. The application of the story wa* »o close to what the Indlauu senator hnd been do ing-talking about something lie had mis- understood—that the seuators did a heap of uusccmly lntighiug at his expense. The Alabama senator Was much ostoulsbed. He had not looked for any such demonstration, lie then realised that Beveridge hnd got ou the nerves of other senators as well a* his own. Of .couree Uerorlrigo was not abashed or dismayed, lu fact, he liked the attention It drew upon hltuself. Senator Pettus was a chivalrous old soul. The senators bays an elevator sat aside for their owu use. Others entitled to priv ileges of the door are pormttted to use It. but when n senator touches the uln^i button three times, no matter how many there inny be In tho car, It goes scooting to wait upon the senator. When there are persous other than senators to enter the car ‘the others must stand hack nud wait until the seuutors enter. Then fre quently the door Is slammed In their faces, so there may be no delay In wtHn* senator where he wishes to go. One «lny Senator Pettus was In the ear when eSnntor Turner rang the bell. Ahead of Henator Turner nnd oblivious of his grew ace were a senate clerk and his wife. Tho little lady, exercising the privilege of her sex and being the nearest to the eleva tor door, undertook to atop Into the car. ••fUh.inre first,” snhl the elevator conduc- jg the little woman back t< low Henator Turner to pass lit ahead of back In the corner of tho car, however, did or two. '•Blank Alnhama senator, a woman stand hack for any man.” Henator TuroerTienrd the growl which set the steel car vibrating, ana wheu he real ized what had been done he bowed to tho woman and apologised. Hlnee thou tho rule i * *-• mforced, exc * Everybody The senator was very fond of a young Woman e<— * * * ** * — - newHpanei her, Indeed, than he was of a card game, to play which. It has been said, the senator more than once made day ami night all the MADD0X-RUCKER BANKING CO. Capital and Surplus $ 800,000.00 / Total Resources Over 3,000,000.00 The accounts of Banks, Bankers, Corporations, Firms and Individuals received upon the most favorable-terms con sistent with safe and conservative banking. 4 per cent Interest, compounded semi-annually, is paid in our Savings Department. - down to a certain sawmill, why did he not Introduce a local bill? I will tell yon i ‘ he did not. Ho well knew time a local of this character could not bo passed. M In order to captivate nnd capture the Georgia legislature, we will put mg money I behind the bill." Just think of It, one syn dicate with a capital of 916.000,00(1 to Im turned loose In gla to arouse her awake frtrrn their long sleep the mighty powers resting quietly Tn the ho*om of her creeks nnd rivers! Not only this, gentle men. lint we have another syndicate (I loathe the word) wttb a 9#,000.(W capital, to build a dam 100 feet high at the old <llt>«nn fishery, between Crawford and Tnylor round ties, which will hack the water to the fool of the mountains nnd flood every foot ofl bottom lands on the river nnd Its trtbuto* rles, and "we will say-to the little devils, who aro entirely dependent on these bot tom lsnds for corn with which to run their farms and furnish bread for lliclr wive* nnd children, if you do not like the sltund linn inAvo’ nn* * *• Tluizn tuiimla t.-lll lif tfifl immense ter will render the contlguou* upland*, the hillsides, vnluelosa; tor It is a known fact that stagnant water generate* and creates deadly disease xorins. Anil now. whnt benefit will these people may iniu this hill, anil nils forulgu capital mar try to coerceand torn the people Into nlaalon, hot lot ma aay to you. gentle men of th, lestaloture, yon nri- tri'Silhiff on rerr dangerous ground. Yuti are netting n precedent that innr remit In n monied srlstncrney. that will enuae the people to rlae lu their sovereign might eml take the reins nf government In their own bauds, na we have recently aeen in tbla "prohibi tion wnve,” and swoop theae ayndkatea, our oppreaanra, from the bordera ot otfr state. Yours, etc., Atlanta, On. A. M. WALKER. "where nre you 'Senators firsC tor, thrusting the Uttle woman back to nl low Senator Turner to pnaa In ahead of her. Turner was so ' thnt he did not stepped Into the cor. Senator Rattan, away DOGS ARE A NUISANCE. To the Editor of The Georgian: 'Mill you allow me apace In your Valuable columns to aay a few words about the nuisance and the danger of allowing many thousands of worthless doge to run at large with liberty, un eared for by the owners! A single do- that will bark, yelp and howl all night In the yard nf hla master or owner Is a great nuisance to the next- door neighbor and to the whole neigh borhood of good people who want to He down and sleep and rest after the day's labor and worry In business. This all-night barking and howling ot a dog In any neighborhood of civilized people Is a nuisance and a curse to the nervous, sick and afflicted, and espe cially It la a curse and an abomination to tne little Innocent, sick and nerv ous children of any neighborhood. If the owner of a gentle horse or inule or cow Is reiiulred to keep Ills nnlmal or animals off of tho public streets nnd oft of the premises of other peopla, which la right and proper to require him to do so, why not as Important and necessary to require and. if nec essary, compel all ownere of dogs to keep all their dogs oft of the public streets and off of the premises of other people by compelling the owners of dogs to confine their aogs on their own premises, even If it Is a nuisance to the neighborhood? Why not the owner of a dog be held responsible for damage and for crime or misdemeanor in case that his dog Is showed the liberty to roam or run at large on the public streets or on the public roade In the country and become rabid and snap and bite any person whom he may meet on the high way? Why not any man be responsi ble for crime or mledemeanor who owns a dog and that dog leaves his matter or owner's premises and goes on the' premises of another, where there Is a crowd of little Innocent, happy children playing and enjoying them selves, chlld-llke, and, without a mo ment’s warning, that dog leaps Into the midst of that crowd of happy children and snaps and bites one of them so badly thnt It has to be hastened to the hospital to try to save its Innocent life, and frightens that whole crowd of chil dren nearly to death? In the city dogs are worthless end a great nuisance and dangerous. And In the country those who would make themselves useful by raising sheep can not do so on account of the sheep-MUIng dogs of their near- __ _ lied to him. Without the least li-sltstlnn the senator came down nnd escorted her nronnd the corner, nil the time felling her that It was flot n Rood iielahlmrhood for her to. be In. Miss Hetty watched her aged'cousin after he hid her gondliy, ond stnlled ns the old gcnllcinsn toddled up tho steps ho wei vending when eho called him. Senator Morgan nnd Senator Pettne t friends from boyhood nnd furnished ... only case of s state hnvlng senators both residents of the smne city. The fact thst he wns from belnm wns urged sgnlnst Mr. I’ettns when he become n eniiilldnte, but tlie fnet did not weigh against him. During the Inst four or tire .venri nsed sennturs spent much of their spsre time In wsrnlng each other to be enrefn of their henlth. Morgan nlwnvs Insisted thst his colleague should consult the doc tors, for whom he hnd little respect. Some thing over n ywir ngo. Senator l’ettns, working hard ou s law ease, was sttseked by rsrttgo. Ills sons told him they wero going to enll n doctor. He Assented, hut stlpulatsd that there must uot bo more than Yoii’re sure there Is only one of youf sold tho senator, after he had got Into tho onrrlngo with the doctor. Tho doctor, evi dently thinking tho seuator desired to say something confidential, solemnly atsnred him they were alone, ■ “Well, I’m mighty clad of thnt,” said the aeuator with a sigh of relief. "I’m enre I’ll get well If there Is only (me oi you. 1 never could survive s consultation." Senator Pettus’ Inst speech In the senate, „i which he had tn tell thnt his colleague wns seriously III end might not bn able to again attend to his duties, contained nn etilngy for his lifelong friend and colleague. Sennturs admired the tern Alihnma sena tors for their whole-hearted regard for sech other. Nearly all senators, ou account of potttlral bickerings .and Jealousies, are on only the most formal terms with each other. Not so with the Alsliemsna. They were senator, they were In accord. Believing the Federal government was Invndlng th > rights of the states, they both Vote)i against the passage of tho rate blit ty. Many men who are engaged In different kinds of useful businesses which require delivery teams and wag ons are held responsible for damage done by unavoidable accldftnta by frightened teams or by the carelessness of the negro drivers whom we are bound to employ. The state legisla ture nnd the city council ought to try to protect the etate and the city against the nuisance nnd the danger of too many worthless loose dims. It Is as Important and ns just and reasonable to make the owner of dogs responsible for the damage done to people by their loose dogs as to hold the Innocent owner of a team respon sible for what happens by the driver and hie team when In care of the driver. and out of the owner’s tight It does not give the people any more protection agalnat rabid, mad and fe rocious dogs to require and compel the owners to buy ft collar or strep from the city and cause the doff to wear It fastened around his neck. It does not ■tve the jieople protection against the all-night barking and howling nui sance. The slate legislature Is In session now, and the city council or city leg Islature meets two or three times every month. It seems that It would be bet ter and safer for the public that the police be authorised and required to capture or kill every dog or capture and kill every looee dog found on the streets In the city unaccompanied by his owner or some other person to care for him ftnd his c&nducL It ought not to stop with the police; but It ought not to be made a misdemean or or crime "for any person who finds a looee. unaccompanied dog by his master or some other person, to kill the looee dog, If found In the country or In the city on the public highways. R. H. SHAW. THAT CONFISCATION BIlL To the Editor of Thu Georgian; I have notb-uil with much Interest tho rapidity nnd aridity with which "house hill No. «0.’" Introduced by Mr. Edwards, of Habersham, was shoved through the house nud transmitted lo the senate. I have nl- wars rnleed my voice nnd wielded by (ten In behalf of the poor, against tho oppros- aloe of the rich, nud I here and now enter uy most solemn protest ngnlns (this must nefarious, confiscating measure, sml earn estly ask the senate tu kill It. I have carefully read this bill. It pro- HAMLET NOWI To fence, or not to fence, that Is the question; \ Whether It Is nobler In the yard to suf fer The hoofs and horns of outrageous beasts, Or to take mesne against a herd ot troubles And by fencing end them?—To plant— to dig— And then to lose; or, by a fence, to say we end The nuisance, and the thousand natural knocks That lawns are heir to—’tls a consum mation Infernally tjenled—for to fence—to wall About a garden Is but offense—aye, there’s the rub; Yet who would bear the whips and scorns of tho herder’s boy, The lowering horns, the poundman’s contumely— When to him you ’phone—the law** de lay, And furnish forage for the cows That, grazing, trample on the Velvet eod, When he himself might his content- meht make With an Inclosure? Who would pul lets rear To grace another's groaning table- But that the dread of neighbor gossip. That uncertain quantity from whose burn No citizen escapees dendens ths will; And makes us curse—low voiced—the pullet's scratching Rather than wring Ita neck and end the Ills we know too welt. Tho’ fences do make rubbers of you all, And cause the smiling acorn of passer by, They eave the green we’ve worked so hard to gain. When In course of time the cattle shall be turned outside. We’ll lose the need of fencing.—Pray you now. Oh, City Fathers, In your ordinances May the days of roaming klne be num bored! —ZELLA ARMSTRONG. ARMY-NAVY ORDERS —AND— MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS “WE KNOW THE RIGHT, AND APPROVE IT, TOO." To the Editor of The.Georgian: There Is a better state of feeling In Georgia than has been In some time past. The Inspiring Inaugural address of our governor draws us Into a more hopeful communfon. It behooves all to aim at the high Ideals, although we aro warned by the past that wo mqy not attain to them. And now we have select represents- liven from all parts of the state, backed by an earnest constituency, yearning for betterment In the affairs of com mon life. But at the name time there are many who have their axee (up their sleeves) to grind. Hilarious at we may feel, we may not reach Utopia. The time seems ripe for relief to the common people, who arc taxed to a strain In the Interest of the drones who toll not In productive Industries. The one and two-horse farmers constitute the foundation of real prosperity, but millions of their hard-earned dollars are drawn from them through decep tion. These million! should be diverted to tbe purchase of homes for our na tives; by the simple tutd just require ment of plain formula on every parcel of medicine offered for sale. This would not Impair the virtue of the com. pounds or single articles. If our law makers would riss from the ban of the money tyrant they would give this re lief. Homes for natives where their sires lived and nre burled are essential for a loyal populace; where there nre loved homes there Is loyal love for the coun-* try. When a rambling renter Is draft ed Into the army he has little to care for except self, and naturally shlrke. The choice sections of our state have lost fertility and timber to such nn ex tent that our young men are driven to the great Weet or Into unproductive occupatlona. and, sad to say, many ot them Into ruin! And now self-inter ested classes who loll not, In the pro ductive fields, propose to replace Ihctn from the lands of leprosy, Idolatry, an archy and bubonic plague. If Ameri can Georgians were blessed with homes Army Orders. unahliigton. Aug. S.—Captain Matthew 5; Tjeenty-eeventh Infantry, from ,0 l lri UJ’r station. First Ueuteimit Brunt Palmer, Tenth cavalry, to militia Instruction, Fort U'll- Lleitensnt-Colopel William T. Wood. In- Jpector-gencnil, from Manila lo Washing- Navy Orders. Commander U. It. t.inrk, detached com mand retss to naval snidemy, Auuapolls, Licutcnsilt-Cotnmnndcr c. Wells, detach- *4 dnty, nnrnl proving grontul to boreuu or oranitnco. Lieutenant C. R. Train, drtualied narv yard, Washington, to duty ns aid s til If columniider-ln-cldrf, Atlantic fleet, on Imard LdMuerticnt. t^rttn 0 .^™ r" eM nn >'" mSWSWk &** r - *•»?«*« «■* Lieutenant It. C. Blnghnm. detached Ten- ness tx> comma ml Vlpsr. Enrimi I*. H. Hndlcr, detsched nary y»rd, Norfojt to command I)o Lon#. Eiurijtn It. M. Griswold, detached naval station. Guantanamo, to Home. Midshipman P. ft. Roberts, detached Mis- Bouri, to Hnpklng. Movements of Vessols, Arrived—August 2: rtinftfliiooffn nt Tonir- kp. August 4: Yankton nt Newport, Olvin- idn, Arkansas. Florida and Nevada at Bath, Missouri at Hampton Ronds. Wolverine at rut-ln-Bny, Whipple nt Newport August 4: .Maine nt North river. New York; Po tomac at Hampton Roads. Hailed—August 3: Vermont, from Itonton Tor Hampton Hoads; Missouri, from Nor- folk for Hampton Roads; Maine, from Hampton Ronds for Now York. August 4: Potomac, from Norfolk for Hampton RoiuIh; l onacctlcut from Hampton Rond* for Rooklandj Milwaukee, from Ln I'nlnn for Acnjutln; Amphltrite. placed out of com- mission August 3, nary yard, League Is land. Texas to Enforce Anti-Pass Law Austin, Texas, Aug. 6.—The state railroad commission has Issued a gen eral order to the Texas railroads that despite adverse rulings of certain state courts, the penal provision of th* anti- pass law will be rigorously enforced. ACTOR MANSFIELD IS IMPROVING New York, Aug. 8.—Ex-Judge A. J. Dlttenhoefer has received a telegram from Mrs. Richard Mansfield, who Is with her husband at Ampersand. N. Y.. relative to the reports of his Illness, as follows; "Please contradlft reports. Improv ing. Had attack sciatica, brought on by damp weather crossing ocean.” India's pentint crop fof MM-ISOT Is 89.- an lo * <K "' 4“shty. The crop "" rc *' »" Increase for tho "f **fllp«r sen,- ki- “f*'.*? 17 L" 1 "* “MWthsI were SM.93J hundredweight, about the average. Colonel Hugh L. Heott, unperiiitentleut nf "lat, has been most »oeres.ful In capturing savage chiefs, l.iih In this conn- tnr (tad In the l’hlUiipliies. He owes part . si* remarkable uuilrr- rattSi** n, * ,, i,r at home, papulation would Increase at rapidly n* the exhausted country would recuperate In nature's way, and com mon sense management It’s not “new blood for Georgia” that Is wanted, but simply blood for ths suckers. There’s a still small voice In opposition to tht* unrirlrteoua scheme, for unxnnctlflcd greed. The politician who I* committed to this, and hereafter aoltdta suffrage of the tolling yeomnn- ry of the country, may hear this voice in thunder tones and reel quakes thst wlU cause the scale* to fall from hi* •ye*. . Let those who want ’’desirable” Im migrants go and select them at their own expense and risk. The chief stay of the country In In those who till the land by the sweat of their own brow. They are already being crushed by other oppressions. Like the fabulous Augean stable that sheltered 3,000 oxen 80 years without a cleansing, this country needs n Her culean tlny’e work to clear It of crimi nal*. The throng of ex-crimlnala Is be ing rapidly Increased by our burden of courts. IF* a propitious period for a general cleaning up by branding and banishing all criminals to Islands where they would become self-supporting by productive toll, rather than by clogging the wheels of progressive prosperity In this (so called) land of liberty. Plain laws, easily observed and read ily enforced, for the protection of peo ple In the enjoyment of natural rights, would give great relief to the whole country, by knocking or cutting out our most complex hroblerfis. But the prob lem of government would remain. Sys tems of government have been on trial since the patriarchal era, and grows more complex with the cycles of time nnd Increase of population. Law can not change human nature. The bad Is ever at the heels of the good, or vice versa. . Ho If we can not hit the spot we should shoot toward It. The "fight” Is between the good nnd the bad. There la now some promise for the good to i top for * time, at least. Lets get on . __ all boost the good. OID. rides fur the eundnunatbin, er rat her, for of the sheep-MUIng dogs of their near- [becuufiv-ntlun >>f lands for eleelrlesl pur- by neighbor*. A .hungry dog will kilt ii r . 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