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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
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IDE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
(AND NEWS)
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
T. B. GOODWIN, Gen’l Mgr.
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Inf. Neither dot* it print whisky or
nny liquor nil*.
nrn platpokm: tiik grohoian
AND NKWH stands for Atlanta's own-
Inf Its own gnn niul electric light
plants, ns It now owns Its water
works. Other cities do tbit and get
pis ns low aa cents. with n profit
tn the city. This should he done at
once. THfc GEORGIAN AMI NEWS
ftejfere* that If afreet railways can l»*
oitemted successfully by Kuropcau
cities, as they are. there Is no good
reason why they ran not be an oner-
nted here. But we do not believe tbla
can lie done now, and It tuny be tome
rear* liefnre we are ready for ao bln
The Atlanta Georgian thinks
that If Mr. Bryan I* going to run
he ought to aay to. What’s the
use? Can't everybody see that he
Is running? —Columbus, On.,
Ledger. *
We can now. And he Is running
with both feet, and awlnglng his arms.
If no other good comes from
prohibition In Georgia than tho
ousting of the negro Rucker, that
Is sufficient to make every Geor
gian thankful.—Columbus Enquir
er-Bun.
Ho hasn’t been ousted yet, and
your felicitations may be a little pre
mature.
Here'* a tip for The Georgian—
. suggest to Hoke Smith that he
nominate Tom Watson for the
presidency. Thon duck.—Swalns-
boro Blade.
We are as willing to gusranteo that
the governor's good will Is equal to
the nomination, as wc are that Tom
Watson's ability will rise to the situa
tion.
Those who are disposed to make
merry over Colonel John Temple
Graves as the "grent nominator"
may feel another way If tho At
lanta man should hit It right and
be rewarded with a big plum for
his astuteuess.—Swaluaboro Blade.
He hasn't tnnde n nomination of any
kind since 1904. A suggestion is a
very different thing from a nomina
tion.
Judging from two articles re
cently published in The Atlanta
Georgian there Is no antl-nmr-
rlage situation In this good old
state, and the race suicide busi
ness cuts no figure at all.—Fort
Galnea Sentinel.
Heresies of social life do not flour
ish In Georgia. The average man be
lieves In early marriages, big fatal
lies, and a domeatlc courtship that
lasts to the end of life.
To The Atlanta Georgian:
Please Inform us by what presto
chango method the Bell Tele
phone Co. made such vast Im
provements In Its service between
suns. We might at some time
want something of the kind done
tn Athens.—Athens, Oa., Call.
The comment to which The Call
doubtless refers was an advertise
ment purs and simple, printed as an
advertising page and paid for st the
regular price per Inch.
John Temple Orares* editorial
In The Georgian, "How Few Tell
the Farmer the Truth," Is mighty
line.
It Is an Indisputable fact that
the farmer has been the worst
duped man on the top side of the
globe. He has been skinned com
ing and a-gohi'. His has been a
road full of stump*.
But be Is waking up and the day
Is not far distant when a light-
’ nlng rod peddler and a patent well
fixture Individual will be safer
under police protection than they
will be In the rural communities.
These grafters have grafted
about all the farmers will stand
for. The fanner should look upon
ererytblng offered him with sus
picious eye. There are some fakers
yet who have not learned of bis
Intelligence.—Fitzgerald Journal.
The point of comfort, however. In
this editorial is the (act stated that
the farmer Is learning to find out Lie
truth for himself, and to scorn those
OHANLER AND CARMACK COMING.
Two eminent and distinguished Americans remain to charm Atlanta
during the fortnight which begins today and ends with tho present
month.
On Friday next Lewla Stuyresant Chanler, a gallant and accom
pllshed gentleman of New York, the lieutenant governor of the Empire
State, a frankly avowed aspirant for the presidential nomination, comes
to meet his Southern friends In Atlanta. That be will be received with
the grace and hospitallty^of the capital city of the South no man permits
himself to doubt and we are quite sure that It will be a feast of reason
and a flow of soul when this gallant Democrat, this accomplished gentle
man, this half Southerner, and altogether American, come* down to min
gle his fellowship and hla fancies with the genial people of Atlanta.
On Tuesday the 29th there comes to Atlanta another eminent and
distinguished visitor,- one of our own. A cltlxen of our sister state of Ten
nessee and, perhaps we might say without exaggeration, the first citizen
In fame and popularity of our sister state of Tennessee.
Edward W. Carmack, ex-senator of the United States, at this time
candidate for governor of Tennessee, and In the rapidly approaching fu
ture once more candidate for the senate of the United States, Is to lecture
In Broughton's Tabernacle in Atlanta for the benefit of the police relief
fund, one of the Institutions in which Atlanta takes the tenderest-Inter
est and for which she entertains the largest respect. ,
There are few*more brilliant men In all the country than Senator
Carmack* of Tennessee. He Is the Idol of his people and there Is scarce
ly anything within their gift which they will hereafter deny him.
lie Is the dashing cavalier, the fiery Rupert of senatorial debate,
flashing with repartee and pulsing with genuine eloquence. He Is a Dem
ocrat of the definite type, a friend of Bryan and a foe to graft. He Is a
man of superb appearance and a gentleman of splendid qualities of head
and heart, and brave after the best type of the Old South, brilliant after
the finest culture of the sanctum and of the platform combined, loyal
In bis traditions and dauntless In his speech.
This Is 8enator Carmack's first visit of a formal nature to Atlanta.
For the first time he will enjoy the hospitality of our city, and for the
first time our people as a people will be permitted to hear one of tho
finest orators of the South, around whose head circles the halo of prom
ise which predestines him to higher things In Tennesseo and In the re
public.
THE THING WE MUST KNOW.
"We got three bears, two wild cats, one opossum, six deer, twelve
squirrels, ona duck and one wild turkey,” aaya the president upon hla re
entrance Into civilisation from the awamps of Louisiana.
This la all right aa a general statement, but It does not satisfy the
curiosity of the country. It Is Indefinite, unsatisfying, disappointing and
vague. What the great American public waits to hear from the Strenu
ous Roosevelt Is not what “we" got, but what "I” got.
How many of those three bears did the president kill? Who got the
wild cats, who killed the opossum, who shot tho deer, who picked off the
squirrels, who brought down the duck and who winged tho wild turkey—
Roosevelt or the Louisiana hunters?
Now no vague and indefinite statement will be allowed to stand by
the waiting and anxious people of the country. Wbat we want to know
la whether the sporting prestige of tho Strenuous has survived the strain
of office, whether the habit of hand-shaking with some seventy thousand
lieople a week has disturbed the steady nerves of the cowboy of the
plains, whether the eagle eye of Arizona has been dimmed over the
musty records of Washington and Oyster Bay, and whether the steady
nerve that faced and fought the bad>man of the West has been demoral
ized by the constant drain of the offlce-ieeker who has besieged the
president In his lair.
We don't want any "we" In tho reports from Stamboul. What the
public demands Is a straight, plain, first personal pronoun In the singular
number.
Wa have tapped the wires again and shall continue to tap them until
we find out Just one thing:
What did Roosevelt kill?
WHEN YOUR AIR.SHIP COLLAPSES.
Have you ever built "castles In tho air?”
Have you ever had "pipe dreams?"
Have you ever blown "bubbles of imagination?'
“Oh, yea," you say, "I did those things very frequently In the years
past and gone."
What happened? *
Your "castles In the air" have all tumbled to the ground, like the
"baseless fabric of a dream," and the magnificent arches, grofns, gird-
ere and beams have been laid all round In glittering ruin! That been
your experience?
Your "pipe" has run out and no one has given you another match,
and because your "pipe” was empty and you didn't have the match yonr
smoke has becomo vapor! That boen your experience?
Ever hod your "bubbles" pricked by some sharp-pointed sword of ad-
veretty or tossed hither and thither by contrary winds until they broke
into nothingness on the Coast of Dospair? That been your experience?
If you have ever seen your “castles In the air" fall down, had your
"pipe" go out or had your "bubbles" pricked you'll know how a man
(eela when hla alrehlp collapse*. Not such an airship at a Santos-Dumont
might build, but the kind all of us build when the wind Is blowing from
tho Fortunate Isles and coming our way. When the "south winds blow
softly" and our lives are full of the perfume that blows from the tree of
hope in the garden of the favored gods! The airships that carry us
away from the humdrum and the toll of life and, forgetful of the weary
miles that are unrolling from the loom of eternity, we dash down the
roads of time and arrive In pleasant ports with safe anchorages ten. fif
teen, twenty years away. That'! the airship we all build sometimes,
somewhere.
The airship of imagination that lifts us on Us broad, outstretched
wings and, swinging us up and up Into the realm of tho empyrean blue,
where we forget the past, rejoice In the present, and have grand vistas
for the days to come!
In that airship we rise strong alremen of the uncharted sky! There
we drink of the ambrosia of the gods! There the bread of the lotus sat
isfies our hunger! There the companionship of the Byrons, the Shel
leys and the Keatsea are our own! What hopes are expanded from our
hearts aa myriad-hued butterflies of fancy come forth from tho cocoon of
our dreams! Beautiful to gate upon they are! GossameMIke In charac
ter, (fragile as spun glass, to be sure, but, nevertheless, we cherish them
and bug them to our hearts! What conversations we hold with Invisible
spirits, who strike the heart harpstrlngs of our Uvea and “play the pre
lude of our fate." What noble deeds of daring we perform when we are
driving In our airship, far removed from sordid thoughts of the empire
world to which we have, too long, been confined!
Driving our own airship Is such rare pleasure and sport!
Then of a sudden the alrehlp eollapses. Down, tumbling, through the
chaos of our foolish, futile thoughts we come, striking mother earth
with a bump that would break every bone In our body were not the
mother the good, kind, receptive mother she Is.
Then, when tfre have recovered our breath, and are able to sit up and
take notice, we find that the people are laughing at us. But we care not
for that, for It Is worth the while to drive our airship through the ere*-
terllng winds of Imagination for one brief moment, even If In the next
we are knocked galley endways as a reward for our impetuous daring
and mad flight.
Though our alrehlp may have collapsed and we have collapsed with
it. yet we have collapsed In good company! Fultou drove an alrehlp,
Morse drove one, too; Cyrus W. Field launched his, and Edison is well;
so also has Tesla. Marconi has not been afraid to sail In his. For this
Is the truth: all the real, practical things of our everyday life at one
time were but the alrehlp dreams of sturdy alremen qf tbe sky, explor*
fng tbe uncharted gml unknown.
Therefore, while we arq rubbing our bruises. Instead of thinking of
our hurts, we are getting ready for the next venture, remembering the
helpful words of Thomas W. Lawson, “All real navigators of the blue
must have at least one good tumble."
Happy the man who reads and understands, and having driven, and
having tumbled from his airship, has the courage, tbe grit and the grace
Has Teddy Got a Bear?
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE.
From Florida to Turet Sound, from Main* to Mexico.
Wherever officeholders meet to watch the hours go,
Wher« presidential appointee* In awe nnd trembling alt.
There run* the one great qnestlon round. “Well, what did Teddy fit?'*
Neglected public business waits, and no one dares to care
About a single thing except “Has Teddy got a bear?*'
***» ‘sw'i* ***»■ cauicu uiua iu« iicrb mini iiu» u me juifbibhii* .
Root, breathless, waits In Mexico, and holds his special train
While
ir the echo of tbe gun tliut cracks among tbe cna
Garfield. Straus nnd Cortelyou ecstatically prepare
•e the lid In Washington If Teddy gets a bear.
Bob Frans fleet rides laxlly upon the rolling tide.
The forepenk inlxxen shroud* unmanned, the looward luff untried;
And down In far-off Panama no great ateam shovels tug
At tons of rock nnd silt and sand; the ditch remains undug.
The government stands stark, stock still; there’s no life anywhere,
For no one dares to do a Up ttU Teddy gets a bear.
MADDOX-RUCKER BANKING CO!
, r
CORNER ALABAMA AND BROAD STREETS.
^ OME of the most important accounts in this\
bank have grown, while here, from small begin
nings. This hank invites small accounts and gives
them every possible consideration and attention.
DINKELSPIEL AND COUSIN OSCAR
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By GEO. V. HOBART.
(Copyright, 1907, by Amerloan-Journal.
Examiner.)
Home. Die Veek.
EIN LIBBER LOOEY—Vs haf
reoelfed your letter from In-
chunappleus und vo vas glut to
hoerd It dot your healt' Is still glflng
rebates to your constitution.
Ve v«» all veil at home mlt der egg
sceptlon dot your mother Is got vun of
her cousins from Mllvaukee stopping
at our house py der name of Oscar
Stottlebauer,
Mebbe It Is, Looey, you doan'd heerd
your mother epeak much abnuld dls
Oscar because he I* a cousin vunce
removed mlt also long bunches of
trained hair flowing chently ofer der
shoulder* from der apex of der noodle
downvards.
Your mother’s cousin Is a mooslclan
und he has cams to New York from
Mllvaukee mlt a opera vlch Is only
slightly concealed In public.
Efer since Oscar arrlvaled der atmos-
1 there of our vunce peaceful home Is
Hull mlt shrieking C-sharps und der
trail of der cadenza Is ofer It all.
You remembrance dot leedle open-
fact piano vlch vas In der sitting room.
Looey?
Veil, It has came upon bitter days,
poor t’lngl
Oscar has rattled Its teet’ und tramp
ed on Its pedals so much dot I doan'd
fink It vlll efer be quite der same
piano again.
You know. Looey, our leedle piano
ha* neter been supcheckted to der
hardships of a two-handed performer,
because your mother only uses It to
pick ould "Columbia, der Germ of der
Ocean" mlt der t’umb und falrat finger,
und vunce In a great vile I sit at It und
by pressing my kennuckles on der
black keys I can sqveeso from dem der
tune catted, "Should Old Acqvalntances
be Forgettedt"
You can darefore unterstoot tt. Looey,
vot a shock It muRt be to a shy, timid,
home-lotlng leedle piano to haf a strange
man inlt uncouth hair chump at It sut.
tenly und begin to beat opening cho
ruses und ensembles ouid of It mlt his
two coat-iron t'umbs und eight aluml-
nus fingers all vorklng at vunce.
Abouid der mooslc vlch Oscar’s
cheenus has gathered up In bunches I
haf nuddlngs to say.
Sometimes It sounds like Richard
Wagner, sometimes like Sebastian
Bach, und sometimes like Helen Blazes
—mostly like Helen.
Anyvay, I doan'd see how Oscar can
be such a goot mooslclan, because he
has such a poor memory.
Ho vas eggsptalnlng tn me der udder
day abouid dls Infllctlonment.
"Vot vould you suchchett. Dinky,"
he set. “Mlt faces I haf a memory,
but mlt names I haf a fnrgettery. Now,
here Is In New York a young lady vlch
I vlsh to sing der sopranoees mooslc In
my opera py der name of Mies Chris
topher, but yust der moment Vot I step
In her presence her name vlll become
omitted from my mind und I vlll begin
to shiver from pit to dome mlt cm-
ban asslngs."
"Vot Is der lady's name?” I Inkvlred.
“Miss Christopher," he set. "You
see I can remembrance It all right till I
meet her, hut der moment she speaks
at me my memory gets up and leaves
der room."
"Miss Christopher." I set. "For der
Improvement of der memory dlt you
efer try der assassination ot Ideas?”
"No.” set Oscar, “I doan'd much be
Rove In patent medicine."
"Dls ain't medicine,” I eggaplalned.
“Dls Is flziyologles. Der assassination
of Ideas is vare you take somedtng vlch
you always forget und choln It t<
somedlng vlch you always memorize,
den ven you begin to forget It der
memory of der udder Idea begins to
short-circuit der brain cells und der
result Is knowledge.”
"Dot grows plausible," set Oscar.
"Let us took der case of Miss Chris
topher,” I went on. "Vot Is der a*,
sasalnatlon of ideas mlt Miss Christo
pher?”
"Der center of der etage, der star
dressing room und much vages veckly,“
set Oscar.
"Better yet," I set, "better yet, for
dls purpose If ve take a ferryhouse for
der assassination of Ideas mlt Miss
Christopher. If you can not remem
brance Miss Christopher you ran recol.
lection Christopher ferry, can’t you,
Oscar?”
'Sure,*' he set.
“Veil, dare Is tt," I responded. "Dare
Is der assassination of Ideas vlch cures
der memory. All der vay up In der
cars to" her house you say to yourself,
'der ferryhouse! der ferryhouse!' Den
ven you meet her you say vunce more
to yourself Internally, 'Der ferryhouse!’
und eggsternally comes forth from der
assassination of Ideas der vords, ‘Pleas
ed to meet you, Miss Christopher!"’
Und dcr next day Oscar called on der
lady und eggsclalmed, "Wle gehts. Miss
Cortlandtt”
But vot can ve eggspert from a man
dot uses up all der Inside of his head
os an anchorage for his hair?
Yours mlt luff. D. DINKELSPIEL,
Per George V. Hobart.
THE COST OF LIVING
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(From tbe Literary Digest).
Is tbe public ripe for n thoroughly eco
nomic platform as Its next political Issue?
nsks a correspondent uf a New York paper,
who claims that never licforp bus there
Iwsn to much written nnd spoken comment
about economic matters. From, all sections
reports imllcnto mounting prices In food
stuffs. "The beef trust bus ndvnuced the
cost of living the past few days, and the
public must march up to tho counter,
mournfully remarks the Washington Post.
- '• ~ - Is not the
'lit eondl-
promtuent
Yet the consumer. It appears. Is m
only/line to suffer under present
tlons. The recent failure of two protnim
wholesale produce dealers In PNisborg,
cording tn tho Philadelphia Ledger, Is
thst the profit-makers ami the wage-earn
ers lire better off today thnn In earlier days,
nnd that the conditions of the salaried see.
tlon are more burdensome. While each
group will furnish Its exceptlun to this view
the gcnernl proposition will probably hold.
"Iu n recently published article the as.
serttou Is indite that lit thirteen yeors the
Increase In the cost of living hns not been
more thnn 3th per ceut of n working!, | if a
Income. The basis for the percentage Is nu
minimi Income of 3838. The notably weak
point In this argument Is that 3833 Is on
ntterly absurd estimate of the 'working.
s Income.' The census of 1900 reports
3,300.143 wnge eiirners with on average In
come of n uttle less thon tin. A selected
list of twenty-three Industries employing
erlhed to the decline In the demand
foodstuffs nt tho high prlcA prevailing lu
that city. If the high cost of flrlnff.be due
to an actual shortage of crop*, explains The
’ - ' icted until
W. H. NOLAN TELL8 HOW
R. F. D. 8ERVICE ORIGINATED.
I notlca In Monday's Georgian that
Hon. Thomas B. Watson and Hon. L.
F. Llvlngton each claim to be the au
thor of the rural free delivery mall
service. Neither Is, but I feel sure
that Tom Watson did Introduce the
amendment to the postoffice appropria
tion act for a rural delivery system
that I had sent him n twenty-page let.
ter about begging him to get congress
to appropriate some money to try the
R. F. D. system.
Now, If you will give me a little space
In The Georgian I will give to the peo
ple of Georgia for tho first time the
real fact* about the R. F. D. system,
which Indeed make the truth read
stranger than fiction,
1 am the originator of the R. F. D.
system of the United States. In the
Inter of 1888 I read an Kngllsh novel
Merchant and Marqules," as well as
remember, which gives a complete de
acrlptlon of the postal system of Great
Brltnln. And I had been to At
lanta several times and noticed the
postal carriers delivering the mall. And
so I decided that If anybody ought to
have a free mail delivery It ought to
be the busy farmers who rlally often
had to go several miles after his mall.
And so I mapped out a plan for a rural
mall service for the farmer* nnd wrote
It off nnd cent to The Constitution, of
Atlanta, but Henry Grady cast It In
the waste bosket. Then I tried the
Savannah Morning News, The Augusta
Chronicle then a Macon paper, and
alto a paper at Rome, Ga,, but alas!
my contribution was cast Into the trash
pile of oblivion. I sent tt to The At
lanta Journal, but Hoke Smith marked
It “23.” Then I tried The Atlanta Con-
etltutlon again, but Clark Howell eald
"skldoo." I tried The New York Her
ald and Sun, The Chicago Times ahd
Inter Ocean and The Louisville Cour
ier Journal. But they all failed to pub
lish It. 1 drafted a copy of It nnd sent
It to- Congressmen Charles Crisp, Jim
Blount nnd Henry Turner, nnd one to
the member from the Fourth Georgia
congressional district and to Hon. Nat
Hammond, of the Fifth, but to no pur
pose, and to a few Northern members.
But I met with no success. But I still
had faith In It, still hoped to succeed,
so In June, 1893, I wrote Hon. Tom
Watson a long letter. He seemed to he
a progressive nmn, and sent It to him
asking him to Introduce a bill tn es
tablish n rural mall service, but he
never replied to my letter, nnd so I
decided that, like the rest, he had cast
It aside. I then wrote to the Living
Issues of Atlanta, and Editor Irwtn
published It and so did a Western pa
per. I wrote to the People's Party pa
per of Atlanta about It, but they did not
publish It. Rut all this time I did not
know that Watson had ever Introduced
the bill, nnd never knew It until the
Populist pnrty nominated him for pres
ident and my attention was called to
It by Tribble's speech. I had noticed
that the postmaster general had beeen
experimenting on that line, but I sup
posed that he was doing It on hla own
responsibility. I had given up the
fight, but was glad to see It etart up.
Home time In 1893 Young Carter
rote a long article for the Living
Issues and denounced me In the most
bitter terms. I replied to It and the
editor refused to publish tt, but wrote
me a letter In which he slated that Mr.
Watson dominated the {taper and so..!
that I must be suppressed. That I was
a writer nf heretical doctrine* But I
thank God tonight, although Watson
It, that It did grow and thrive. I never
have been honored by It nor gained any
fame or fortune. Let the politicians
wrangle over tt nnd the editors refuse
to print my articles. I feel tonight,
although I am a poor old soul and bro
ken-hearted Invalid farmer, that I have
been worth more to the American peo
ple than any other man of my age, ex
cept Tom Edison. I have no money
nnd but few friends, and work hard
for my dally bread. But although a
common man I am the original origina
tor of the R. F. D„ though Watson and
Livingston claim the honor.
The above Is a correct and truthful
history of tho facta 'which I hope you
will please publish for the sake of
truth and not for me, and oblige,
W. A. NOLAN.
Temple, Ga.
THE SHELTERING ARMS.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
Monday we were arraigned before a
city court on an accusation of Illegal
retention of a 3-year-old child, who
was placed In our custody by the moth
er, and demanded by an irresponsible
father. This was my first acquaintance
with the court room, and I was eelxed
u-tth a slight attack of court fright
but my assqplshment was more confus.
Ing than the fright. It seemed to me
like one member of the municipal fam
ily sitting In Judgment upon another
(pardon my Ignorance, If such It la),
the only difference being that one Is
punitive, the other preventive In Ite
administration. I wish Atlanta did
know and understand what we stand
for In her midst, and what Is the pur
port of our work. I believe the city
officials would consider ue at least their
ally and co-worker. The Sheltering
Arms Is a work of woman for woman,
not clamoring for franchise, doesn't
want the bBllot, but we do consider
that we have certain Inalienable rights.
We want to help women who are
thrown on their own resources, who
must go to work to maintain their fam
ilies, because of widowhood or worse
than widowhood. We not only help
them materially, but relieve their anx
ious burdened hearts by keeping their
children from the streets, the negro
shanty or places where the environ
ment anad Influence would be perni
cious. In this way we help the em
ployer also, for these women con do
better work when the strain ot anxiety
Is lifted.
Our work Is educative In Its primary
sense, for we have our own kindergar
ten and the public schools work with
us. All children of right age attend
the schools. Certainly In Its broadest
moral sense our work Is educative, for
we are trying to do for these little
human flowers what Luther Burbank
Is doing for plant life—rubbing off the
thorns, knots and excrescences by
iliawltfg out and building up the best
that Is In them—thus hoping to de
velop pure, sweet, helpful women und
irue. strong, honest men, to make good
citizens for Atlanta and to swell the
population of the city of God. Oh, I
wish I could make people understand
what we are and what we are not. We
are not a stock pen. in which tn herd
little animals, nor a place of Illicit con.
cealment. We are In every way trying
“ romdte law and order.
on't tile city help us to protect the
helpless and strengthen the weak?
MISS 8. C. OLIVER
lsnlger, little relic? enn lie expected
tbe yield of nnother season readies the
ket. The Pittsburg wholesale dealers,
ever, sny that the lilaine In their case
with the produce-growers, who have com-
tdnod to raise prices, forming a sort of
"farmers' trust. 1 ' But ns fruit and vege
tshle crops have been short In all parts
of the country, with the exception of the
Pacific conet, The Ledger suggests that the
difficulty may ho something more lliaii a
metier of combinations In n restraint of
trade. "Tho grent rise In the price of
mont," It points out. "has thrown nn un
usual demand upon other articles, anil this
lends to Increase the cost of those our"
commodities, whose prices are nlrea
swollen hr a short supply." There are
nssurlng Indications of a general full In
prices, It adds. .. u
The itrersge cltlsen, romnrk* the New
York Sun, I* but little enlightened by the
ncro* of nintter printed In newspaper*. nmg
nzlncft, nnd special reports with refereuct
to tbe cost of living, tlio question for most
of us resolving Itself Into, the results of mi
IndlviduAl experience. The Run* neverthe
less, has some Interesting words to sny on
the general aspect of the subject, ’to quote:
“The people may be divided Into profit-
winkers, salary-drawers. nnd wage-earners.
There are no statistles which show with cer
tainty the financial condition of the tnrm-
Pcr* of these clnsses todny ns compared
*’** w In times of lower prices
Genera! Investigation and
PEOPLE AND THINGS
GOSSIP FROM THE HOTELS
AND THE STREET CORNERS
The class of *98, University of Geor
gia, held a reunion at the Kltnball
House last Saturday night and enjoyed
a delightful dinner. The guest of the
occasion was Hugh H. White, a well
known lawyer of Center, Ala., and the
permanent president of the class.
There were eight members of the
class present and plans for holding am
other reunion at the University of Geor
gia commencement next year were dls.
cussed. Those attending tho. reunion
Saturday night were: Major E. E. Pom
eroy, Charles H. Black, Dr. F. Q. Hodg
son. Frank Mitchell, B. D. Watkins, Dr.
Robin Adair, W. F. Upshaw and Hugh
H. White.
Hon. Harvle Jordan haa resigned the
position of director of farmers' Insti
tutes and this work will In future be
conducted by Dr. A. M. Soule, dean of
the State College of Agricultural and
Mechanical Arts. Mr. Jordan haa held
this position .for several years and has
met with marked success.
Dean Soule will take active charge
of the work at an early date and will
begin a tour of the state within the
next tew weeks. Efforts are being
made to secure a special train for the
use of the agricultural lecturer and the
exhibits which ho will carry albng for
the purpose of illustrating his lectures.
Dr. Houle has requested the railroads
of the state to furnish him with a spe
cial train, but has received no definite
reply.
income ns ssso, nor to couflrm the estimate
of a mere 3H per cent Increase In cost of
living In thirteen years.
“Growing expenses, however, nre offset by
twenty or even -ten yearn ago. It Is untie,
nlnhtc thst wage-earners ns n class have de
rived benefit from the higher-price levels.
In fact. It Is to their Increased Income th:%e
the Incrt'ime In cost of living la largely nt-
trlimtnble.
“The profit-makers, the merchnnts, man
ufacturers. nnd traders, ns n einss have
profited rather by general trade nctivlty
than by the change In prices. Their In
come mny bo affected In some mcnstire by
price condition*, but It Is not entirely or
even largely dependent upon them. Profit
margin* nre based on cost, whether the cost
ih* high or low. The victims of prosperity,
of Increased cost of living, nre salary -draw
ers who mny hnve no i»owcr to effect nn
fucrense fn Income by union, strike, or
other weapon. I pon this class, with h
mentltcrshlp of several millions, the bur
den of higher prices falls with greatest
weight.”
This latter (mint Is also taken up by
the Washington post, which returns io the
subject In n later Issue. Especially, It says.
Ih this true of the clerks of the rotted
States government, for whom “there Is no
balm or Gltend lu these flush days.” Re
ceiving the same pay thst they got In lSv.
they “are being docked the difference be
tween the value of the dollar then and the
vsluo of the dollar now.”
ARMY-NA VY ORDERS
AND
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.
_ Ths floor spars of St. Peters, Roms,
was nuhnmed. of ths R. F. D. baby at Is 327,00(1 square fsst, ths grsatsst of
'' - n-»4 r- »o r*—. ii-l r! '(h- erv rntb—leoi in ih- \r r rV
Thomas B. West has been made gen
eral manager of the Oeorgta Oil Com
pany to succeed J. C. Rusbury, who
resigned to take the management for
southwest Georgia of the Gulf Refining
Company. Tho appointment will go
Into effect January 1, 1908, Mr. West
has been a resident of'Atlanta for sev
eral years und made a fine reputation
as a traveling salesman for the com-
pny which he will head.
The first team of troop L First cav
alry, of ths national guard of Georgia
won the Atlanta tronhy cup, valued nt
1500, at the annual shoot Saturday aft
ernoon. This cup was offered bv the
cltlsens of Atlanta several years ago,
and, with the exception nf one year,
this troop, the Governor's Horse Gunn),
has won It each year. The shoot was
held at the new rifle range and there
were five teams of ten men each en
tered.
Barry C. Cothran, formerly Atlanta
manager of Ware ft Leland’a offices,
but more recently with Fairchild &
Co., tn New Orleans, has been named
New Orleans representative of Springs
Mr. Cothran Is one of the best known
and most expert young cotton men In
the South, and his hosts nf friends here
and elsewhere will be pleased to. learn
of his new connection. Springs ft Co.
large business for the mill nnd
spot cotton people In the South, und Is
one of the best known cotton firms In
Gotham.
Edgar Thompson, the Atlantan who
was Injured by being thrown against
an automobile Friday and who has been
lying In a serious condition at the
Grady Hospital ever since, was report
ed as improved Monday morning, al
though he has not passed the danger
point.
Rev. Everett Dean EllcnwooU, pastor
of the Unlversallst church, will leave
Tuesday to attend the Unlversallst con
vention at Philadelphia. He will stop
for a day or two at the Jamestown Ex
position on his way home, hut will re
turn Ih time to fill his pulpit next Sun
day.
Army Orders.
Washington, Ort. 19,—Brlgmllcr Gsneml
James Allen, chief signal officer, to HI.
Louis, Omslin nnd Fort Wood, New York,
on duty pertaining to signal service.
Navy Orders.
Lieutenant Commander O. F. Cooper, de
tached naval station. New Orleans, to hy
drographic office. Lieutenant Comma | ler
A. A. Pratt to naval academy.
Confusing English,
"I see one of our battleships report
ed fast In the mud."
"Well?"
"I was Just thinking thnt a ship fast
In the mud ought to be a record break
er on the open sea."
Financial.
"What's all this I hear about drops
In various stocks?"
Oh. they're nothing but Utils drop*
■ iictli’ iiiiill n, ti, nriniiii n» tin» mi ji. iui-
•W. Enslxn W, I*. CnddlSs detaebsd Wor
den to Truxton.
Movements of Vessels.
Arrived—October 17, Chnttanoojrs at Naga
saki; Tacoma nt North Itlver. New York
city: Nero at Bradford, R. I.; AJnx nt
Norfolk; Lennldnn at Hamptou Ronds; Mil-
wniikco nt Knn Francisco.
Sailed—October 17, Marietta from Hamp
ton Roads for Key Went; Milwaukee from
Mart? Inland for Mnn Frauclsco.
QUESTION OF PI8TOL8.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
The Georgians have recently distin
guished themselves by abolishing tho
drinking saloon. Let them now lead
the world In another great civil reform
by abollnhlng the pistol. There la
really no sufficient reason for the ex
istence of pistols. All necessary shoot
ing can be done with guns not len*
than three feet long. The pistol In
made for concealment and for killing
men, and will be carried concealed as
long as they are made concealable. The
laws against carrying them concealed
were never wholly effective and will
continue to fall to control a largo and
dangerous class of men. •
The Idea that a man may protect his
life by carrying a pistol Is wholly delu
sive. If a man Is killed by a pistol
In most cases It is because he either
has or is supposed to have a pistol on
his person. A man’s own pistol Is often
the cause of his being shot and be
comes at the same time the Justification
of his slayer. Who ever heard of a
man being hanged for killing another
who had a pistol on Ills person?
Home argue that pistols place men
more nearly on equality. In reality
nothing could make them more un
equal, as the one who ’’gets the drop”
°n the other hns Immense advantage,
although he be a pigmy In size.
The pistol Is not only the instrument,
but ulso the cause, of many murders.
Whisky and pistols are responsible for
perhaps nine-tenths of the murders In
our country. Abolish them and homi-
will be greatly decreased.
The United States stands disgraced
before the nations of the earth by a
record of more ihan 10,000 human kill
ings a yenr, and these killings are
chiefly the work of the pistol.
No good man needs a pistol and no
bad man should be allowed to have one.
If a »nan must bear arms, let him carry
an honorable gun that can not be con
cealed on his person. The policeman
may, If desirable, use the three-foot
gun as a club or as a walking cane. Pa
tois are a disgrace t<« civilisation. Let
Georgia take the lead In abolishing
them. If the press of the state will
lend Its influence to this movement it
will he the more speedily accompli she. I.
It has required a hundred years to
abolish the drinking saloon. The pis
tol may be banished In one-tenth of tbe
tllne, since whisky has ten excuses for
Its- existence where pistols have one.
We L. Cs HUWNICUTT.
THE MEASURE OF A~~MAN.
Tills Is the measure of n man—I hold—
To love with honor and to lose with grace:
Tu Ujrltt with courage, stalwart, strong aua
I told.
And, smiling, look misfortune In tbe face.
To fear no man, nor shrink from any right*
Nor care an atom what tbe world umy
8o long ns. deep within kls Inmost sight
The ground looks clean whereon bs makes
Iris wny.
Refuse no friend nor brother ready
And when, at last, he meets the snole*
Trail. . ...
To go with Death, unbowed and unafraid
fit'*'*. In The T"*