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THE ATLANTA (LEORGJAN AND .NEWS. JDAI, ACUt'ST 1?, 1MT. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NEWS) JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Published Every Afternoon* (Except Sunday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY, At 23 Weft Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga. Subscription Rates: One Year IJ-g Wx Month Ono Month By Carrier, Per Week Telephones eonneetlne all depart* moots. Long distance terminals. Smith ft Thompson, advertising rep- r*\s. ntntlres for all territory outside of CbhSro Office Tribune Building New York Office ...... Potter Bulldlof 1/ yon bate an/ tronhle eettln* TUB GEORGIAN AND NEWS, telephone fti»? circulation department and hare i^ 0M: It I, (Irritable that all rommtialca. M word, I. lenftik It Is Imperstiv# uot be ret u reed unless for (be purpura. I .wap. are Mat THE OEOUMAN AND NEWS print* po underti or objeetkmobl, sdvertla- Ini. Nell her doe* It prist whlrkj or any liquor ndr. OCR ITjATPORM: THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS slssds for Atlnntt 1 , own- lug It, own (ns ssd riectric lliht plants, ss It sow owns Its wsler works. Olhev elll«s do this sod net believes that If street rtllwiyrren be 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. * ——r- OOOOOCKH>O0O<KKl0000t>O000000 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 OODOOCWOODOPODDODOOPDiWOO of Thc's^riv 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