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THE ATLANTA (LEORGJAN AND .NEWS.
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
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OCR ITjATPORM: THE GEORGIAN
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lug It, own (ns ssd riectric lliht
plants, ss It sow owns Its wsler
works. Olhev elll«s do this sod net
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operated meeessfulljr by Bnropenn
cities, ss they sre. there Is no good
reason why they res, not be so oper-
ated here. But w» d. not bellev. tbt.
can be dooe now. and It may |ie sene
years before we ore ready for so bl*
an undertaking (till Ailnntn should
set Its face In tbst direction NOW.
It l( no longer good form or com
pllraentary to say a man hps horse
sense. The modern way Is to assert
that he has auto sense.
Tho Hague peace conference has
decided that It's "no fair" to drop
bombs on defenseless towns. Pass n
rule to drop bums on offensive towns,
and the Job will be complete.
A New York woman, sent to an In
•anc asylum, Is said to be suffering
with Btereotyky, a form of dementia,
causing the ceaseless repetition of
word* and sentences. If tho lino Is
to be drawn strictly on that form of
Insanity, there la going to bo somo
crowded bug-houses In this country.
"Will the IIouso see the anti-
lobbying bill butchered?*'• asks
Tho Atlanta Georgian. Don't
know about the house, but the
balance of the atate has already
eecn It.—Albany Herald.
Not eo last, our dear Colonel Me
Intosh. The anti-lobby bill is only
postponed. The next legislature will
build It Into law.
The Georgian having exhaust
ed the possibilities of the edito
rial page Is now using tho front
to display opinions of how It made
Georgia dry, regardless of tho
fact that it was us and Dr. Nun-
nally that did It.—Griffin New*
and Snn.
Of course you did, Olessner—you
and Dr. Nunltally. And will ydu be
good enough to note how promptly
and prominently we concede your
claim.
The present controversy be
tween Bishop Candler and Tom
Watson recalls an editorial ot a
tew yean ago entitled "The Fat
Bishop and Ilia Fainting Foes."
It waa from the pen of John Tern-
plo Graves and was ono of the
keenest bits of satire over penned
In Georgia.—Thomasvillo Enter
prise.
Thero was no malice In that bit It
was aqnaro sparring with a great
controversial sparrer. The bishop Is
on our great list now as always.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
(From Tho Chicago News.)
* There are still sobs vacant lot. on Easy
street.
living it ItT
How long tbs day. seem when yon ar.
short of money'
One method of dodging popularity Is to
(Ire your neighliors sqvtr*.
It somMimm happen, that . woman
. double rhln talks enough for two.
• I . ,t '* l i. w £?, ,lsr "if 4 f°.t * woman to twlleve
her hnsbeni!!** ** , * 11 * °*her women sliont
JW wlvsn got comfort out of the thought
that tbclr hni*irule ar* Just ns good ns oth-
*r men when they are asleep.
“ *“• *• •*»
except* wort ,r ** * ,,,lD g to do anything—
, ,'f^jvj^keep tt""" 1 *! to tho right yob will
lT. ^T.l. J l< ’ rt *w trouble- If they
THE GREAT AND HISTORIC LEGISLATURE OF 1907.
It ioep not avail to depreciate the legislature which adjourned on
Saturday night.
Taken altogether It will rank aa the historic legislature of the quar
ter century, anJ its Individuality was not lees marked than its achieve
ments.
It made more history In sixty days than the General Assemblies ol
the laet twenty year* have written, and Its fame can neither be les
sened by criticism nor .damned by faint praise.
It Is not the least remarkable thing about the General Assembly of
1907 that it was not an administration body. It waa not elected upon
tbe platform of the present administration, and It la stated upon high
authority that the majority of It* member* did not vote for tbe pres
ent governor of the atate.
And this fact render, all the more notable and admirable the loy
alty of Its members to the expressed will of the people, and the tri
umph of patriotic sentiment over any personal preference or mere per
sonal prejudice.
The -./III of the people as expressed In tbe thunder of the last cam
paign touched two high and signal Issue#—tho establishment of white
supremacy and tho regulation of the railroads. The triumphant pass
age of tho Felder-VVIlllnmi disfranchisement act consummated tbe first
of these Issues, and the later but equally effective CandleriOverstreet'
railroad bill brought the .second to pass.
The will of the people, unexpressed but abundantly and gloriously
understood, swept tbe people by an unexpected but predestined wave
Into a prohibition taw that rewrites and rebuilds the history of the
state. The prohibition movement grew In a fortnight out of the Car-
teravllle and Valdoata elections, and sprang full grown Into the legisla
tive arena, a glnnt that would not he denlod. It waa not a part of the
program of reform, but In an era of reform It swept with the tread of
a conqueror to tbe very head of the procession, and led the list with
the majestic majority of the session.
That It delayed other legislation, and loft unperfected laws that
might have been more completely formed, can not be denied. But that
Is a price which the virtue and peaee of our civilisation willingly pay*
for an achievement which brightens all the horizon of our ctvle future.
The vast foundations of these great laws have been duly laid and a sub
sequent session not too far away may prune tbe error* and correct tbe
Imperfections Of a harried but eventful day.
The filibuster and the week's delay over the prohibition bill con
sumed the time which might and doubtless would have been expended
In th'e consideration and perfection of roform legislation.
The Assembly of 1907 was human and therefore fallible.- That it
left undone some things which should have beoo done is doubtless true.
Its moat eeriout sins of omission were the failure to pass the Income
tax on corporation* and to porfect the anti-lobby measnre, which were
genuine demands of the state campaign. It Is doubtless true that both
of these reforms would have been enacted Into law but for tho hurry
that closed the session. It the Assembly bad lived a week longer they
wojild each have been passed. It was the differences on minor iiolnts
which could not bo harmonized In the haste of closing holies, and tho
conception of the two supreme Issues that must needs be met and an
swered, which halted the forward march of reform.
nut when it Is remembered that the legislature of 1907 banished
whisky from Georgla,-e*tabllshod white supremacy, and enthroned a com
mission of live Georgians with larger powers upon tho Issues arising
between the people and the railroads, there Is not likely to be any seri
ous reflection made by history or memory upon tbe Life and Record of
this memorable session.
Men wbo have n mind to do so, und politicians who have an Interest
In the effort, may find and magnify amall flaws in the great session, but
the great big things that were really done so far outweigh and outshine
the things that wore left undone, that the Record 'will mock tho cav-
Her and laugh the critle to scorn.
. Wo congratulate the General Assembly of 1907 upon Its secure nnd
honored nnd distinguished place In the history ot the state.
Educational Progress in Georgia
STATE—
S
Lss*a
By REMBERT G. SMITH
Tho constitution of Georgia adopted
In 1877 and now In force ts not favor
able to the educational well-being of
the state. Its most Important defect
Is Its failure to recognize the high
school as a necessary part of an edu
cational system. It I* also defective In
not providing for the exemption of col
lege endowments used for the public
good from taxation. To remedy these
defects two amendments to the consti
tution should be submitted to the peo
ple. -
It Is agreed by all who are students
of Georgia's educational policy that her
greatest need Is for a system of ef
ficient secondary schools. The people
are now taxed by the state for the
support of the Institutions of higher
learning and of the common schools.
It is Illogical and Indefensible to inako
no provision for high schools which
have been well called the "universities
of the common people." The principle
of continuity In education was seriously
violated by the framers of the consti
tution of 1877 when they limited taxa
tion for .educational purposes to the
t nlreu-slty of Georgia and to the com
mon schools. Consistency would re
quire that the state provide some
mesas by which the pupil who has
completed the common school course
!» prepared for the Institutions of
higher learning. The children of Geor
gia have fine native abilities, put they
are not qualified "to Jump” the three
or four years of training which should
come between the grammar school and
‘he colloge. The child mpst go through
Mill ICSIllllMllllt Mill tllH
grounded, as the following facts dem
onstrate. (The figures are those com
municated, to "The World Almanac" of
1907, by the college authorities and
are for tbe year 1908: hh
Virginia .. ,
Georgia ,. .
Tennessee. .
N. Carolina .
S. Carolina .
Alabama .. ,
IH Z
THE TEXTS FOR THANKSGIVING.
Aa tho Summer draws to a tranquil closo, and the first faint tint of
Autumn's brown touches tho outlying leaves of tho forest, the people of
Georgia and Atlanta realize the many causos of gratitude which should
pulse tho v-lns of citizenship and the heart of Christianity.
It Is a great year that la behind us. Every step of time measured
In months and days has been a step of progress, betterment and ad
vance.
In tho great world of which wo arc a part thero has boon an on
ward step In government. In public purity and In Individual liberty. Tho
exposuro of graft In high places, tho fierce light of publicity beating upon
public abuses, the redaction of great corporations to a recognition of
the popular will, tho compulsion of the railroads In matters of rates and
franchises, tho multiplication of publio men, brave, hoocat and patriotic,
the people In the saddle and riding triumphantly In tho management of
their own affair*, tho swelling coffers of a general prosperity, and tho
bounding veins of a very gcnernl hoalth, tho reign of righteousness as
expressed In Temperance nnd law. and the thought of the world radiat
ing from The Hague Conference toward universal peace—these are
events and causes which are bearing ns onward to what ought to bo, and
doubtless will be, tbe fullest and since rest Thanksgiving Day that the
Republic has known since the closo of the Civil war.
The Governors nnd the President who draw tho next Thnnksglvlng
proclamations for Novembor will have a text for grateful and glowing
eloqucnco that few officials of tha century have enjoyed, and If these
gentlemen rlso to the monsure of the great opportunity which condi
tions offer them, the proclamations of 1907 should go Into tho acrap
books of thoughtful citizens to be handed down aa pictures and voices
of the greatest era the Republic has ever known.
he high school before he is proper ma
terial for the college, as the cotton
must go through the ginnery before It
Is ready for the factory. Georgia has
been giving her educational factories
seed cotton far too long.
This need for high schools has been
felt In Georgia and It has been sup
plied fn part by private and denomina
tional high schools and by community
or municipal Institutions supported by
local taxation or tuition. Sometimes,
too, a strained Interpretation of the
irovlslan In the constitution has sl
owed pupils really pursuing high
school branches to have 'the benefit
of the common school fund. The sin
In this matter ts certainly venial. But
In »ptte of these measures Georgia re
mains without sn adequate number of
well-equipped high schools.
Towards securing this one needed
step Is, as already suggested, the
amendment of the constitution 4>y the
recognition of the high school as nn In
stitution worthy of support by taxa
tion in view of the fact that’It Is a
necessary part of a complcto school
system. It will probably be asked now
If It Is proposed to Increase the rate
of taxation In order to provide for
the high schools. If this were the plan
no doubt any constitutional amend
ment recognising high schools would
be defeated, as the people would ob
ject to this Increase In their taxes. Tbo
people are desirous that the appropria
tions for education be Increased grad
ually, a. has been the case In late years.
The money for the support of these
high schools shbuld come from the
funds now appropriated, either for the
common schools or for the Institutions
of higher learning. Georgia has not
been niggardly in her appropriations
for education In the last ten years as
tho following table shows:
Appropriations 1897-1908.
For common For higher
Year
schools.
Education
1897 .
t 1,161,052
2
115,765
1898 .
1.169,945
114,832
1899 .
1,610,301
90,166
1900 .
1,398,122
95,751
1901 .
1,505,127
152,768
1902 .
1.015,052
131,271
1903 .
1,538,955
139,831
1904 ..
1.591,471
173,635
1905 .
1,735,713
177.90C
1906 .
1.711,844
232,500
Totals
215.037,582
21
.424.521
Aver**
P«r y’r
.2 1.603,753
2
142,45!
• The
exhibit
fl* to pupil*
1*
shown
In the folln\Ylng tablo:
Enrollment of Pupils 1897-19C6.
„ Institutions
Higher
Year Com. Schools. Leurn’g.
ST. LOUIS LIQUOR TROUBLES AND THEIR REMEDY.
SL Louis through The Dally Times makes complaint to the world
that. In spite of It* recent stringent temperance reforms nnd the rigid
enforcement by Governor Folk of tbe Sunday closing law, the number of
arrests for "drunks” has Increased from 3,945 In 1905 to 6,363 In 1907.
Searching for tho reasons The Times concludes that the perversity
ot human nature will explain tbe phenomenon, and that the mere fact ot
* general effort to restrain the drunkard and curb the brawler drives
him In sheer perversity to s new and mere vigorous effort to have his
wsy In radical drinking and In abandoned disorder.
We think The Times falls to go to the root of the problem sad ts
mistaken both as to the cause and to the remedy.
St. Louis Is one of the most accomplished of cities In the matter of
drunkenness and disorder.
The stalwart effort of the governor to Improve its morals la met not
only by the perversity of tbe criminal classes, but by the much more
dangerous tactic, of those who prosper upon the tastes and methods of
the criminal classes.
'Die mon who pander to the taste for drink and Immorality are cold
sober and dead set on bringing to shamo and failure the Folk eff&rt at
reform. They expend their energy, their Influence and their money In
creating a public opinion that does not sustain the anti-saloon move
ment, and they are In all probability standing In organized method be
hind every violation of tho law and every laxity of the police.
If The Times and Its contemporaries who share Its lament over
these conditions would only organize In opposing rank, to pnt publio
opinion In magnificent array behind Governor Folk and the administra
tion In the Temperance crusade—
If The Times and Its friends would only organize to compel an
enlarged and emphasized Interest sn The part of the St. Louis police to
suppress drunkenneu and disorder and to compel the observance of
the law—
Then we are willing to guarantee that tbe lamentation of The Times
will be turned into rejoicing and congratulation over the triumph of
order and the decrease of crime.
Here In Atlanta and In Georgia, we are more happily situated In that
the weight of a vast public opinion sustains the action of the state legis
lature, and because the officials of city and state ere of one mind In the
rigid enforcement of the law.
1899
1900
1901
1909
1903
1904
1901
1908
450,832
489,107
474,441
494.385
502.887
439.784
502.014
499,102
48S.520
516,288
2.842
2,920
2.322
2.213
2.889
2,871
2.491
2.950
2.403
2.470
Totals 4,827,341 25.771
Aver’ge pr yr .... 432.734 2,5'
These statistics, from the office of
State School Commissioner Merritt,
show that In tho common school during
the decade 1897-1900 there has been an
average annual enrollment of 482,734, at
nn averago cost per year per pupil of
22.11; that In the Institutions of higher
learning there has been an average
annual enrollment of 2,577 at nn over
age cost per year per pqpll of 235.27.
These figures would seem to Indicate
that the money which should have been
spent for secondary education has been
spent for higher education. Who will
argue that the common school teach
ers are too highly pald'or that 23.11
per year per puplt ts too much for the
state to pay for the elementary In
struction of the great mass of her fu
ture citizens? Instead of paying teas
wo should pay more. "The supreme
public need of our time” Is the better
ment of our public schools. Next In
Importance among the edueatlonul
needs in Georgia Is nn efficient system
of high schools. The congressional dis
trict agricultural schools cannot and
were not designated to meet this need.
They will be paid for by the farmers
and If they do not Improve agricul
tural conditions' In Georgia they will
fall to accomplish the end for which
they were created. Should anyone en
deavor to divert these schools from
the accomplishment of this good pur
pose they will receive unmistakable
tokens of popular Indignation.
It would seem clear, then, that In or
der to Improve high schools In Geor
gia, the appropriations to the Institu
tions of higher learning must be re
duced and the amount of the reduc
tion applied In secondary education.
Nor does this Involve, If the adjust
ment be gradual, any damago to the
atate Institutions for higher learning.
Of course, the change should not he
abrupt. But If the choice were to be
made between state colleges or atate
high schools regard (*r the well being
of the people at' Inrge would compel
the decision In favor of the high
schools. Fortunately, Georgia can fos
ter both.
The proposal Is that tuition he
charged In the state Institutions for
hlgh.r learning and the amount thus
saved be devoted to the high schools.
Can the $55.27 per year per pupil In the
state Institutions for higher learning
now raised by taxation be raised
In any other wayT It can be
raised by means of tuition fees.
But the timid friends of the
state colleges will fear that they
would suffer in enrollment, ware tu
ition charged, and this fear seem,
plausible. Nev»rt*i»l-r«, It Is n»l well
1,800,0001 275
2.200,000 ... .
2,000.000| 80
1,900,0001- 60
1,300,000 40
l,l00,000|...
It here appears that the University
of Georgia ha. nn actual enrollment
smaller than these either of Virginia,
Tennessee, North Carolina, or Alabama,
being larger only than that of South
Carolina; whit. If the populations of
the state, be considered every one of
them has larger enrollment than the
University of Georgia.
The University of Alabama, which
charge, no tuition, has an enrollment
smaller than those of the Unlversltlea
of Virginia, Tennessee and North Car
olina, both on the relative nnd absolute
bases and one a little larger on the
relative basis than that of South Caro
lina. If It is ruinous to a state colleap
to charge tuition how can the fact be
explained that these Institutions which
charge tuition have larger enrollments
than our own university which charges
none?
Nor Is It the fault of the University
of Georgia that her enrollment Is thus
comparatively small. She has done well
In tho light of the fact that the high
schools of the'stnte have betn so few
and so Inefficient. If the atate wilt
recognize and provide for secondary
education the Institutions of higher
lenmlng will not lack for pupils even
If they do charge tuition. The foolish
policy now In vogue Is to offer as I
prize to pupils Illy prepared for be
ginning a college course free tuition
If they will try It anyway. One of the
Incidental results In Georgia has been
to lower college standards In an effort
to meet the existing condition of In
sufficient secondary training.
Rome friends of the state Institutions
will be ready to object that too great
advantage will be given the denomina
tional colleges In event the former
should begin charging tuition. In fact
this would put them on a plane of
equally. Are the state Institutions
afraid of that? Atlantans may well be
directed again to the experience of state
Institutions In other states where there
ore Just aa aggressive denominational
Institutions as there *re In Georgia. In
theso states the universities have
prospered charging tuition even more
than has the University of Georgia
churglng none.
Tho people of Georgia should care
for those Institutions which have been
established . but not by providing them
with funds which they might secure
from pupils. Higher education hns a
commercial vnlue to the Individual nnd
he Is willing to pay for It. Why should
the stnto tax Its citizens then to pro
vide thla expensive culture, especially
when she la without a system of high
schools? It Is not argued that the st&te
Institutions should make high charges
for .instruction. Let the charges be
reasonable. As already shown, had
the stute during tbo lost ten years
chnrgcd about 235 per annum per pupil,
nbout what the denominational Institu
tions charge, not a dollar would have
been necessary from taxation nnd near
ly a million and a half dollars piore
would huve been available for the com.
mon schools; or, looking to the future,
an amount thus savod could be well
spent In maintaining a system of high
schools, tho way for them having been
opened by nn amendment to the con
stitution.
The people would be wise also In
voting for tho exemption from taxation
of college endowments used for the
public good. In doing so they would
revert to the policy pursued until 1877;
they would bo following the advice of
such disinterested leaders as the la
mented Walter B. IIIII; they would
be putting Georgia'In fellowship with
three-fourths of tho states of the
Union. We are not yet so near a mil
lennium of Intelligence or culture In
Georgia that It ts wise to put an em
bargo on enlightenment. "Tax not the
windows of the soul, said the noble
Hilt In a plea to the general assem
bly. May hla word* be speedily heed
ed.
V
ARMY-NAVY ORDRES
—AND—
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS
Army Orders.
Washington, Aug. 19.—The follow
Ing army and navy orders were Issued
Resignation of Becond Lieutenant
Troop M. Wilder, Fourth Cavalry, ac
cepted. First Lieutenant John B. Hug
gins, assistant surgeon, to Washington
barracks.
Navy Orders.
Commnnder C. H. Harlow detached
navy recruiting station Pittsburg, to
navy yard. League Island; Lieutenant
Commanders A. M. Cook. P. H. Ryan
and Lieutenants W. D. Puleaton, T. C
Parker and H. G. S. Wallace commls
aloned.
Lieutenant Commander O. W. Laws,
detached naval academy to bureau of
ordnance; Lieutenant B. Earle, de
tached bureau of ordnance to Maine
ordnance officer. Lieutenant A. St.
Smith, detach.d navy yard. New York,
to duty as inspector of powder. Phila
delphia; Lieutenant R. T. Menner to
navy yard. New York, department
ateam engineering.
Movements of Vessels.
ARRIVED—August 15, Yorktown
La Union: New Jersey, Rhode Island,
Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky and Kenr-
sarge at Provlncetown; Mayflower a‘
Oyater Bay; Standlsh at Annapolis
Dolphin at Washington; Des Moines ni
Boston; Villa La bo* and QulrOs Vi
Shanghai; Mlnnessota and Connecticut
at Hampton Roads. August 17, West
Virginia. Maryland, Pennsylvania, Col
orado and Alexander, at Yokohama.
SAILED—August 15, Virginia, New
Jersey and Rhode Island from North
river for Provlncetown. August 16,
Mayflower from navy yard, New York,
for Oyater Bay; Des Moines from
Gloucester for Boston; Hannibal, from
Portsmouth for Lambert Point; Ten
nessee from Tompklnsvllle for Hamp
ton Roads; Buffalo from Paget Sound
for Prtblloff Island.
Dixie ofd.red from Havana to navy
yard. League Island; Saratoga stricken
from navy fist and ordered sold.
SHI OPTIMISTIC
Says Real Sources of Peo
ple’s Wealth Not
-- Affected.
New York. Aug. 19.—lAh. 51. Shaw,
former secretary of the treasury, haa
authorized the following Interview on
the present financial and Industrial
conditions:
"Our farmers produce more than
$6,500,000,000 per annum, and the
prospect Is good for an average crop.
Our mines yield more than 11,500,000,
000, and our forests more than $1,000,
000,000, and neither of these sources of
ealth has been exhausted. The out
put of factories In other than food
products is $12,000,000,000 and no fires
mvc been extinguished.
The railways earn mot's than $2,000 t
000,000 and they are all In successful
operation. The payrolls of our fac
tories nnd railways aggregate appro *
mately $$,500,000,000 and the scale
wages has not been reduced.
“In other words, the real sources of
tho people’s wealth have not yet been
affected, and the ability of Industrial
concerns to pay dividends is t not meas
ured by the market price of stocks.
Logical reasons for serious conditions
are, therefore, wanting. Psychological
reasons are never jsantlng.”
THE FENCE OR THE AMBULANCE.
Twn* u dn»K<*rims cliff, os tU*»y freely con
Though to walk ucnr Its crast was •»>
plod asst.
nut over Its terrlMo edge thero hsrt slipped
A duke ond full tunny n jHwunr.
8o the people said souicthltiK would hove to
lw» done.
Out their protects did not nt nil tnlly;
Some sold. ’Tut n fence round tho edge of
the cliff,“
Some. “An ombulnnce down In tho Tal
ley.”
nut tho cry tor the ntnhnlnnce curried the
dnj-,
For it spread through the nelghltorlug
city:
A fence tuny 1m* useful or uot. It Is tru*.
Hut ouch heart was brimful of pity
For those who slipped over the dangerous
cliff;
And the dwellers In hlghwny and Talley
Gave pound or gave pence, uot to put up s
fence.
But an ambulance down In tbe Talley.
For the cliff Is all right If yon’re careful,"
they said,
“Ami If folks even slip or sre dropping
t Isn't the slipping that hurts t!i»m so
mneh
As the shock down below when H|cy’re
stopping."
Then mi old sage remarked, "It’a a marvel
to me
That people give far more attention
To repnlrlug result* than to stopping the
cunse.
When they’d much lM»tti*r aim nt preven
tion. ¥
“Let us stop nt It* source all this mischief,"
dispense
With the ambulance down In the valley."
"Oh. lie’a a fanatic," the others rejoined.
"HUiwniM* with the ntn1»nluit«v? NVver!
Ile’d dispense with nil charltti**, too. If he
could;
Hut no; we’ll protect them forever;
Aren’t we picking folks up Just ns fust ss
they full?
And shall this man dictate to us? fibnll
Why should people of sense stop to put up
ley?"
1*
..jfatlHHi
They believe that prevention Is (tetter than
cure.
And their party will soon be the stronger.
KuctM.nige them, then, with yonr purse,
voice nnd pep.
And (while i»ther philanthropists dnlly>
The) will scorn all pretimse and put up a
stout fence
On • 1?*» cliff *hrt (»-»■— **riT '•!*** vid****.
“ALL NIGHT.”
(From The New York World.)
When the elevated railroads ware (milt In
Manhattan they were not operated through
out the night.
When the Unities liquor llrenso law was
pn*HC4l It provided for a cessation of liquor-
scillng between 1 and 5 a. in.
There was a time when an all-nlgt ‘
tnurnnt in New Y’ork wua a novelty.
There wna a time—not man yeara ago—
whmi n to4»thnphc In early evening meant
hours of tortdre awaiting tho arrival of
daylight.
There was a time—not many years sgo—
the uncertain "night of the drug store
wns tho bone of the sick who had the pre
scription of physicians to be filled.
There wns a time—In tbe twentieth cen
tury. too-when banking was nn Impossi
bility nt night.
There was n time—In the present year—
when arrost at night meant houra of de-
tentlon In a stuffy, uncomfortable roll, no
matter how trifling the charge, how respon
sible the prisoner.
For ye
l>>tMi run .
past tho law has provided
of nit-uight license*. For years there have
lieen nll-nlght dentists, drug stores, res*
tnurants. l or n brief period there has been
a ntKht-nnd-dnr bank. For a few d*X»
New York bus had an nll-nlght police court.
New York Is now the foremost all-night
city of America, If not of tbe world.
will conic tuffin end.
The frock coat hns censed to bo worn by
in« n of fnshlon In London, arid Is relegated
to bauk dork* and dry goods floor walkers.
It Is thought that the old Caylloma
silver mines In Peru are probably sit
uated at a greater elevation than any
other considerable mines in the world
Their altitude varies between 14,000
and 17,000 feet. They were worked by
the Spaniards in the sixteenth centu
ry and before that, it Is believed, by
the Incas. An English company Is now
preparing a hydroelectric plant for
them. This plant will be situated at
an altitude or between 15,000 and 10,-
000 feet. It will derive ita power from
a waterfall on the Santiago river, and
In a dry season from Lake Htmilla-
cho, one of the sources of the Amason.
The power win be transmitted by ca
ble about three miles.
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O CHAUFFEUR NODDED AND D
O AUTO JUMPED CLIFF; O
THREE NEARLY KILLED O
O Atlantic City, N. J„ Aug. 1*. Q
O John H. Hook and his two sons, D
O ’William anJ Henry, of Lancaster O
O Pa., were almost killed yestarday O
0 In an automobile accident near O
O PleoxantvIUe. The machln. was* C
destroyed by fire after fall leg I# o
feet over nn embankment. Charles O
O Young, who waa driving th. car, O
O has dfittppeared. q
O They lost their way and were O
O retracing the route when, It is O
O raid, the chauffeur fell asleep and O
O the machine Jumped the embank- O
O menu 0
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Returns
v
From Investments
The saving! account U one ot ta«
best Investments for small amounts.
It ts tho start to larger and batttr
things In life. The man who depends
upon his labors for-his sole Income
will discover a decrease In earning
power ns the years pass. Save a part
of your Income In productive days.
This will give you n reserve ,for other
times when sickness nnd misfortune
come. Tbe dollars you save will
work for you Just as they do for
other men. The returns from safe
investments help to make success
and increase the Joy of living. Those
who wish to start saving In a small
way should seo us. We will be glad
to tell you about tbo conveniences
and benefits of a savings account.
On such Accounts wo pay i per cent
Interest, compounded twice a year.
MADD0X-RUCKER
BANKING CO.
fUN AND FROLIC
MARKED CLOSE OE
Lights Turned Out and Pa-
> per Ball Battle Is .
Begun. ,/ l i ,
The Georgia legislature baa con.
vened, transacted Its business, ad
journed and gone home.
The hour of adjournment came at the
close of the most strenuous day of a
most strenuous term and although
both houses labored sealously during
the closing week to dispose ot all pend
ing measures which are of far-reach
ing Import, time and a wide diver
gency of opinion prevented final action
upon many of them.
Among the bills which were not final
ly disposed of are the anti-pass bill,
by Mr. Hall, which passed the house
and met defeat In the senate, the antl-
lobhylng bill by Mr. Wright, ot Floyd,
which passed the house and waa mu
tilated by the senate until there was
scarcely enough of It left to
caat a shadow, and the bill Increasing
the tax of fertlllxer Inspection by Mr.
Martin, of Elbert, which passed the
house and was also hammered Into
Inocuous desuetude by tbe higher pow
er.
A Year’s Recess.
By the terms of a resolution, offered
by Mr. Trent, of Heard, Saturday nleht
and which was adopted, the adjourn
ment of the legislature partakes of the
nature of a lengthy recess without
displacing any bills which were pending
when the legislature adjourned.
31 r. Trent's resolution-provided that
all measures not disposed of should go
over until the next session as unfinished
business. This resolution dispenses
with the necessity of Introducing the«»
bills again, and according to Its In
terpretation a measure that haa already
been read twice may be taken up at
the next aeaalon In 1908, read a third
time and passed without th. formality
of Introduction, discussion In commit
tees. ate.
This Is made possible because of the
fact that the legislature of 1908 will be
the same as the legislature of 1907 and
may pick up It. business where It left
off without any complications arising.
Th. last session of the lower house
was one of the most remarkable on
record and was Intensely Int.restlng to
both the member, of the house and
the crowded gallery which sat above
and watched It.
Fun In the House.
Although vitally Important meas
ure. were being considered It waa the
laat night of the session and hilarity
ran unrestrained. Fun and business
were mingled fhdlucrlmlnately, and
inuring the closing hours the scene re
sembled a Western stampede.
The session of the house ran com
paratively smoothly until the approach
of midnight. Then, tn order that the
Journal should not show any legisla
tive business transacted on the Sab
bath. willing hands brought the pendu
lum to a standstill.
With the clock stopped and Sunday
Indefinitely postponed, She members of
the house resolved'themselves Into tho
committee of th. whole for the purpose
of having fun, and during the recesses
when committees from both houses
were struggling to get a strangle-hold
on agreements to measures which had
precipitated deadlocks, they had It.
During on. df the recesses Mr. Aus
tin, of Murray, took the chair. He had
scarcely taken up the gavel when the
his. of a paper wad fired from a rub
ber band gave the signal for a general
onslaught and the speaker pro tern, was
the objective point of a fusillade of
books, papers, bills, fans and like mis
siles.
Turned Out th. Lights.
Mr. Austin gamely returned the firs
best h« could, but he was nbout to
driven to covc> when the lights wort
switched off, and when they "'ere
sn Itched on again Speaker Slaton, calm
and dignified, was wielding the gavel
and the house was placid.
During the session Mr. Austin, who Is
BaptluV preacher, Introduced a.resnlu.
tlon providing that before adjournment
the members have a love feast ana
wash the saint's feet. Mr. Hardin of*
fared nn amendment that Mr. Alexan
der, of DeKalb, be nominated high (lea-
con of the foot washing.
ilr. Glenn. of s Whl>fleld, offered n res
olution to the effect that the next ees-
Mon of the legislature be held In Chat
tanooga, In view of the fact that At
lanta will be hot and dry next summer.
In this manner and In other* of t
similar nature, the house passed the
evening and the early morning, attend
ing to busln.ss when there was busi
ness to attend, and making the best ot
the occasion when there waa a tempo"
rary lull.
Wier to be Orator.
William S. Wler, of the Atlanta
Typographical Union, ha* been Invited
deliver the Labor Day oration in
Montgomery this year. Mr. -Wler I*
orator of considerable ability nn-
prominent among the labor leaden