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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. sconda r, ncTonnn a.-mi IDE ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NEWS) JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. T. B. GOODWIN, Gen’l Mgr. Published Every Afternoor. (Except Sunday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 25 West Alabama Bt., Atlanta, Ga. Subscription Rates) „ one War »I M Six Months • »£ Thrw Mouths Lg • '»» Month *]> Itj Carrier, Per Week tO Telephones connect tug all depart* litruta. I.ont dtitanne termiP.11). Smith £ Thompson, ntlrerllilnr rnp- rnaratatlTes for oil territory nut.ldo of Georgia. Chlrnao Otrine .... Trtbnne Build ns. New York Otflne .... Brunswick Bid*. If yon hate any tronlile set Him TUB OBOlttJMfC AND NKWP, telephone the elrculnllon deportment and hare Suhsrrlbera dedrlns TUB GEOR GIAN A N|) NEB'S itTarostlnnsd most notify this offlne herwlne. I -llllr suh;—, In stop la received, tn onlerlns a rhsnao of address, please give the old ns well as the new address. It Is desirable Hint all mmtunnlra- tlons Intended for pnldtnatlon In THE GEORGIAN ANU NEWS be limited to 300 words In length. It Is Imiieratlrn that they lie signed, as an evidence of good faith. Rejected ninniisrrlpts will net he retnrnod nnleaa stamps are sent for the purimae. THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS prints no unclean or objectionable ndvertls- 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 iMIttltllHHtlMIHHIHHIHHMMa 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 ilHlIlUMmHIMHHHimHtltlHHlHIHHHMtHMI (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"*