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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, !» THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NEWS) JOHN TEMPI.E GRAVES, Editor. F. 1_ SEELY, President. T. B. nOOnWIN, Gen'l Mcr. Published Every Afternoon, (Except Sundey) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At X Wt»t Alsbimt 8t„ AtUnt,. G«. Sub.crlptlon Ret,*: On Tel- *}K 81, Month, f S On* Month S By Carrier. Per Week 10 Tetepheaf, connecting *11 depart, mrntfc I .on, dl,tenet terminal,. Smith A Thnmpfon, adnrtfnlar rnp- r,a,ntnt(ve, ror nil territory out,Id, of Georgia. _ .... CMelgn O#|o, .... Tribune Bitlld n,. New York Office .... Brnnawlrk Bldf. If you h»r, enr trooblefeltlni THU GEORGIAN ANT) NEWS, telephone the circulation department and have It promptly remedied. Telephone*: Bell 4»)7 main; Atlanta t»l. tlon; olherwlee. It will he eontlnoed »t the reenter lub.-rlptlon rate, until r.otlre to (top I, rrrelved. in or-trine » change of nddrcaa, pirate fire toe old ■■ well „ lh, new •idrfsff. It I* daelrthl* thet nil commonlee- 100 word. In length- It I, Imperative tlut they ;* tinned. »e en ealdeneeof rood filth, Ilejerled manuiorlpU will net he raterned un’.e,, eternp, nr* »*nt for the pnrpoie. TRB GEORGIAN AND SEWS print, no nuclei! or ohja: tloniM, ndvtrtle- Ing. Neither dPM It print whl.ky or any liquor ndi. our pLATPoiu r Titi e « BORoi an AND NEWS stand, for Atlent,', own tnn It, own t>, nnd electric llfht plant,. •• It cow own, It, watrr work,. Other cltle, do thta nnd get with u profit roa a, low a, fit) cute, wtlti u profit Jmre h *TI«i: GtioItOIAN'AND NEWS boiler#, that If atreel railway, enn l.e operated ,urce,efuUr by Korop,,u rltiea, a, they are, there I, no sand reaaon why they ran not be »o oner- •led here. But we do not better, (hit can he done now. nod It m,y bn eome yeere before we are ready for ip big an umlcrtuklne SHU AlleiUn ahould net lit fare In that direction NOW. Tom Jobnaon rode Into office again on that three-cent rate. 1 Trial* pi».v come and trial, may go, but Caleb Powers itaya with u*. Dr. Parkhur»t »ay* that bluiter l« usele,*. Surely, he ought to know. When Mr. Taft called he found most of the king, ol( calling on the neighbors. Coal an fuel was first used a hun dred years ago. Before that time piracy flourished. England shouldn't mind shipping n little .gold over here. Some of the glrL, *111 carry It back pretty soon. American youths have no-desire to so to West Point. They prefer to en list In the fight ror or against the gen eral graft. The Washington Times announces the formation of a collar button trust which Is getting ready to soak the people In the neck. A Chicago judge refused to grant a divorce by proxy. Which la another proof that It Is easier to get married than It Is to got unmarried. King Edward has a big diamond and three new green hats. The per quisites of a king are nearly as nice as those of a pretty woman. A large sum of money Is to be spent In building ventilating shafts for the subway. Then will New York’s "smother" become a little sunny? The second son of the Crown Prince was not welcomed with as much cere mony as was tne first. But this also happens in families that are not royal. It I* said that Rockefeller has asked the advice of Tolstoi as to how to spend his money on humanity most beneficially. He might try putting It In his wife's name. An unmarried woman of 35 pre ferred slaying In a Chicago Jail to liv ing with relatives. The modern bach elor maid will never lower herself to be anybody's old maid aunt. The Philadelphia womau who can recite the poem she learned ninety .'ears ago Is'not so wonderful. Most a ay of us can tell bow the Soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers. Mrs. Pat Campbell was wise in not l-avlng Pinky Paaky Poo home while rhe made a business trip to the States. Old as she It, the little dog la worth several columns to her mis tress yet. The lateat Innovation In the moving picture show la the Introduction of a talking machine that will supply speech to the figures fn the scenes. Let ns all give thanks that the phono graph U to bo moved within. ALPHABETICAL. The Kin. ergarien children are strug gling with the alphabet. "who can tell what comee after Q?" a»k# the teacher. Rtlem e reigns. Again she question,, "Doesn't any one know what comae after G?" Then Carleton raises hi, hand. "I do," he aaya. -Whlx. Gee whlx,"— woman's Horn* Companion for Novem- RUNNINO ATLANTA AS A BUSINESS. Clfy government by commission Is at last reaching the light of day in Atlanta. A committee has been appointed by council to investigate the matter. The plan, as outlined In the suggestion of the promoters of the movement, is not exactly In accord with what haa been done else where successfully and no doubt should be more or less modified. The most sensible plan has been that of electing by popular vote a commission of. say, live men as the executive head of the city. The council, or legislative body, remains the same, but In place of a mayor or other executive officials, there Is a commission of live business men who conduct the affairs of the municipality. It is not a radical statement to say that our present form of govern ment has been outgrown and needs Improvement, Just as the old system of having the conductor act also as cashier for the railroad thirty years ago has been outgrown. When the railroads put In the ticket system, and the conductor was only allowed to punch holes In pasteboard, In stead of carrying the treasury In hfa Jeans, many of them quit the busi ness. Some of our friends who aro saving their cltlea would go back to the plow If they had to operate with other than ante-bellum methods. Our cities are no less than huge business enterprises nowadays and should be operated as such. Atlanta buys more coal, more machinery, more electricity and employs more labor than any private enterprise In Georgia, yet what enterprise Is there that would trust Its destinies to some of the mayors Atlanta has had and try to meet competition? On the other hand, we see the Chamber of Commerce, that does more to build up Atlanta than any othor single force, electing one of the most successful business men the city has ever produced at Its head. Asa O. Candler has probably brought more outside money to Atlanta—and brought It here to stay—than any other living Atlantan. The CandTer building, costing over one and one-half millions of dollars, and hundreds and hundreds of houses and business bulldlugs bespeak the man's success and Ills confidence In his home town. Many of Atlanta's wealthy men have made their money out of Atlanta, and some have Invested It else where. Mr. Candler has done largely the reverse. He Is president of a great hanking Institution, president of the Atlanta Clearing House As sociation, and now is to accept the presidency of the Chamber of Com merce—with no salary, of course. What would be the destiny of our municipal affairs If auch a man as Candler, with Sam D, Jones, Robert F. Maddox, David Woodward, Clif ford Anderson, or any five men out of several scores of Atlanta's suc cessful trillions as a commission to administer them? We would need no Chamber of Commerce—the city government would he Its own Chamber of Commerce, and all the energies put forth by such a commission would be hacked by the whole city, and we would grow as no city on earth could grow In perfection of administration. Growth and Progress of the New South The Georgian hero record* each day •orae economic fact In reference to tbe onward progress of the South. BY JOSEPH B. LIVELY Reports show that 98# new industries, with s capital of $54,738,000. were completed and puf Into operation In Ihe territory tributary to the Southern railway and Mo bile nnd Ohio railroad during the twelve month* ending June 3?, a gain of many millions of capital over the previous year. In addition. 220 Industries made Impor tant additions to their plnuts, materially Increasing their facilities, at an Invest ment of 311,331,390, and 99 Industries, with n capital of 17,129.600, were reported as under construction. These figures show the Investment during tbe year of the great sum of 373,230,800 in industries. In addition to this, there was expended for general Investments In cities and towns, such np building*, street Improvement*, street railways, water and light plants. 368,430.886. This shows a grand total of 3135.J63.785 Invested In Industries snd Improvements along the line of the Honthern railway and tbe Mobile and Ohio railroad for the year ending June 30 last, outside of the money luvested (n lands and farms and farm Improvements. Of tbe total Invoatmenta In new Industries 34,084,000 went Into the textile Indus try. The cotton and oil mills called for Investments of 31.117,000, Iron nnd Iron prod ucts 34.166,000. lumber mills 36,179.390, miscellaneous woodworking plants 11,990.500, furniture factories 31,261,600. brick plants 31.375.100 nnd fertilizer factories 3613.000. The showing Is certainly a magnificent one and Indicates most clearly the steady and rapid growth of the southeastern ststes, and the work of further development of the country immediately tributary to these lines Into one of tbe greatest and most prosperous industrial regions of America nnd the world. The gain in farm values nnd farm production fu this region has kspt pace with the remarkable industrial development. New set flora from the North and from Europe have gone Into the various communities Hlong the Hues In Increasing In both improved and unimproved A SOUTHERN MAN FOR PRESIDENT. For several years In a vague Inconsequential kind of way Southern ers have discussed the possibility of a man from the South receiving the nomination of the Democratic party for the presidency of the United States. At each recurring national convention of the Democratic party it has been demonstrated that the time was not ripe for such action; that the people of the country were yet unprepared to accept such a sugges tion. Kverj* four years the Democratic organization has presented to the people at large candidates from the various sections of the country save below Maeon and Dixon's line and the South In loyalty and good faith has accepted these candidates and has registered an almost solid vote In their favor. The politicians of this section have been patient and ac ceptive of conditions made Imperative and unchangeable by existent prob lems. But the day seems rapidly approaching when the political influence and power which once belonged to the South shall again, In a measure, dominate the governmental policies of the nation. The business Interests of this section have grown to such propor tions; the Industrial development has become so remarkable and the agrlcnUumrauceesa of the people so tremendous a factor that'tbe South need no longer remain simply the acceptive voting part of the nation. The time has arrived when, once more, she should take her rightful position In directing and controlling the destinies of the republic. As Is well understood, previous to the Civil war the South was the dominant section. In the politics of the country. Her representatives In every branch of the national government largely directed the policies of tboae earlier time*. For more than forty years this task has been left with out protest to other sections. But with returning prosperity the people of the South are beginning to. question the wisdom of remaining any longer quiescent In matters appertaining to national politics. The action of Tennessee Democrats assembled In state convention at Nashville on Tuesday was significant and ominous of a change In the unquestioning position hitherto taken by the 8outh In being ignored In the distribution of the great national offices. At Nashville a movement was Inaugurated for the nomination of a Southern man In 1908. An address was Issued by the Tennessee Democrats bringing to the attention of the country Ihe fidelity and loyalty of the South: that the Democratic party was born In the South; that conditions which made only candidates from the Fast or West available or desirable no longer exist—and asserting that 'in leadership In war. statesmanship and literature, the 8outh Is not be hind other sections, and at this particular time we have men equal to the best that the past has produced." Tennessee Democrats in organised form have taken the Initiative In favor of a Southern man for the national presidency. While 1908 may ho somewhat premature for the successful carrying out of this worthy move ment, the day can not he much longer delayed when a Southern man shall occupy at Washington the highest office within the gift of the American people. The South will certainly come info her own political ly. Commercially and industrially. The day of happy fulfillment is nigh at hand. By CAROLYN PRE8COJT, O F all tbe excuse# flint have been made for women knocker#, tbe .beat, I be- lleve. Is tbe one that saja the* knock because their mind* are soisll —#« small that there I* no room In them for higher, better thought*. Gossip It what they like, gntslp Is all they know, snd. therefore, gossip Is all they do. Gossip Is twin slater to knocking, though not quite so vindictive In Its character. Did you ever listen to n regular ham- merfest. when it was at Its height? It Is it lllieral education In Iteelf. 1 hove lis tened time nfter time to these soirees: In fnet, I worked In the midst of one for two years, once upon a time. Knockers there were who would destroy n woman’s char acter or gossip away her reputation ns blithely and airily as they would discuss a new gowu or the weather. They did It by suggestion, ugly, unhen it- tlful suspicion, (or your knocker Is always a coward at fcJnet. He or she never comes out bravely with a criticism. It Is ac complished by Insinuation nnd underhanded methods. Oh. the reputations that have been picked to pieces and ruined by this body of fair knockers! No—I will take it bock. They were not fair; they were frumps, the most of them. If a girl uad particularly pleasing man ner*. wan pretty or attractive, they knock-' ed her. thinking their catty conversation* regarding her would put a finish to her success. If one of tbefr number received a raise In salary, had a stroke of good for tune, came out In n new dress or a new hot. they get their hammers out and tbe anvil chorus got nt work. If one of the girls who didn't belong to their circle met a man and walked a half block with him. out came the mallet. Noth- lug was too veered for them to attack— marriage, divorce, love, religion—every thing was fish that come to their net. It didn’t matter what, only so that It was something they could knock. One of the girls, n regular beauty, who had been so carefully reared that she bod a mind above gossip, was tliulr particular tar get. This was because she was, as I have said, carefully reared. She wag' a beauty and a favorite with everybody except thla baud of knockers. They were Jealous, of course; Jealous of her beauty, her pretty clothes (which, by the way. were made at home by her mother). They were even Jeal ous of her pretty Eastern accent, and mocked her In whisper* when they were where they could not be. overheard. One evening she went to visit a friend In the suburbs and missed an early train. Be- ins obliged to wait for a later one, she tel ephoned her mother to meet her nt tbe cor ner of the street. It happened that one of the members of tbia hammer band was on the street car that brought thla young girl home. What meat for the knockers’ club! This woman, with the all-important secret, could hardly live until noon the next alone latent night. What business bad she ? ;olng out at night alone, all dressed up n white? Nhe* didn’t tell anybody aboui MADDOX-RUCKER BANKING CO. CORNER ALABAMA AND BROAD STREETS. Capital $200,000.00 Surplus and Undivided Profits $600,000.00 Commercial Accounts Invited. 4 ni Interest, compounded twice a year, is fO paid in our SAVINGS DEPARTMENT I WHY SHOULD ONE PLANET RECEIVE MORE HEAT THAN ANOTHER?! snu me siory grew snu grew. ji»w h ball, uotll every one In the big office had heard It lu Its unabridged form. Thla la but one example, but I could tell scores of others that Were brought before the committee of the whole at these ses sions of tbe knockers. The truth was stretched, conjectures were made, fiction was Juggled with until It became feet, all because these women with limited brain ca pacity cotfld not grasp greater Idea Are you one of these women knockera? The habit Is easy to acquire and grows alarmingly. If you find yourself saying un kind thing* about people, stop It at once, before you Join tfmt everlasting throng. Nice people do not Indulge In personalities, they leave these for servants nnd back vnrd people. Really nice women are char- PROHIBITION VICTORY IN ALABAMA. The action of tha lower house of the Alabama legislature on Wednes day In passing the Carmichael prohibition bfll by a vote of 66 to 25 was a tremendous victory for the prohibitionists of that state. What the sen ate may do In thla matter of count remains to be seen. The passing of the Carmichael bill In the old capltol at Montgomery was marked by an enthualgam rarely witnessed In any legislative hall. The galleries were crowded with representative women, and. when the result of tbe vote was announced, the excitement was so great that little or no effort waa made to keep even a semblance of order. The bill provides against the sale of whisky In clubs, or by associations, and for an officer whose duty it shall be to enforce this law. Alabama's position on the prohibition question is significant In the extreme. For tbe first time In her history haa this issue been made a state Question. Local option haa obtained In many counties of Alabama for several years, but twelve months ago few men could have been found to prophesy auch a victory as was gained on Wednesday by the prohi bitionists of that state. The senate will In all probability pats a similar blit to the one adopted by the house on Wednesday at Montgomery. J. B. RICHARDS WRITES OF ALABAMA PROHIBITION. To the Editor of The Georgian: I Unv# just read the report of tho passage of a prohibition bill iu tbe lower bouse of the Alabama legislature and the strong speech made by Speaker Carmichael, u lltor of Ihe bill, aud I would like to say few words about It. With scores nnd hundreds of others. 1 am f rently rejoicing over added victories, but I cel perhaps n deeper Interest lu the work In Abihitiiia than most of you Iterative of my long association with, nnd great love for. the Carmlchuels. Speaker Curmlchael nnd I were reared In the same little town, were schoolmates, and bis Illustrious father. Judge Jesse M. Carmichael, of Osnrk. was one of my father's warmest friend*, snd, I believe, one of the ablest and purest men that ever lived In the wlregrnss region of the old eotton state. I wo* for several years under Judge Carmichael's training In sabbath school, where he waa long the honored and much loved superintendent. Next to my father, I owe no other man a greater debt of gratitude and love. At my father’s death Judge Carmichael icreeded him In office, and at once became almost n father to me In his stead, nnd aided me greatly In wlqdlng up my father’s business affairs. I love him, and 1 love Archie, the son. nml now, more than ever, honor the itnme. Praise fiod for the many manly men. Ide aud faithful, In a work that incans much for our boy* and our girls, and whose Ing nnd must prevail J. B. RICHARDS. ARMY-NAVY ORDERS AND MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS. Army Orders. Washington. Nov. 13.—Lieutenant Colonel George A. Dodd, general staff, from Tenth to Fourth cavalry; Lieutenant George H. G. Gale, from Fourth to Tenth cavalry. Captain Robert MeCleave. Second Infantry, recruiting officer, from Jefferson barracks to Columbus barracks: Major Robert If. No ble. from Ninth to First Infantry. First Lieutenant George"I*. Tyner, gecoud cavalry, aide de camp, report to Brigadier General W’n field H. ton; First Lieutenant Third cavalry, to Fort tenant Marion C. Unysor, Fifth cavalry; First Lieutenant Theodore Hohults. Four teenth cavalry; First Lieutenant Alvnn C. Gllletu. Fifth cavalry; First Lieutenant Rog er H. Fitch. First cavalry: First Lieutenant f^slle A. I. Chapman. First cavalry; Sec ond Lieutenant Howard C. Tatum. Seventh cavalry; Necond Lieutenant Arthur G. Mah er. Fourteenth cavalry, nnd Second Lieu tenant William R. Pope. Second cavalry, to 8. Edgerly, at Washing- rn«i*t Bryce I*. Dianne, Fort Clark. First Lieu- PROHIBITION CONVENTION FOR ATLANTA. The decision of tbe Atlanta Chamber of Commerce to tend Prertdeat J. Wtlle Pope to Chicago to prcaant to the national executive committee of tbe prohibition party now In aeaalon In that city tbe clalma of Atlanta to their next general convention of tbe prohibition party la in every way to be commended and approved. The convention will convene the laat week In May, or the flrat week In June. There will be about three thousand delegates, representative of every portion of the country, and the wives and relatives of many of thaae men. Several other cltlea are contending for the honor of enter taining thla great convention, but In view of Georgia's recent action In declaring for state prohibition It seems the natural and proper thing for tbe prohibition party to bold Ha convention In this splendid city, where, after, such a fierce conflict, the great victory waa won. Mr. Pope will he accompanied by Alderman Quillian on his mlaaion to Chicago and the cftiiens of Atlanta reallxe that their Interests and those of tbe city are safe in their capable hands. ty-ninth ... Fort Douglas. Flrat Lieutenant Albert G. Goodwyn, from Fifteenth to Tweuty-nluth Infantry, to Han Franelseo; First Lieuten ant Robert Met*. Heck. Jr., Twelfth caval ry, from Fort Oglethorpe to his troop. Navy Orders. Rear Admiral II. II. Hnow to retire,! list, Novemt»er s. t'ommaiider W. H. Hogg, de tached navy yard. Pensacola, to command Glacier: Commander M. M. Bennett, detach ed Glacier to command navy yard, U PEOPLE AND THINGS GOSSIP FROM THE HOTELS AND THE STREET CORNERS “Excuse me.” said the %n*u whose coat collar turned up ns he shoved a newspaper filliping over the counter toward the res taurant cashier. “Perhaps you have nl ready read this?” “What Is It?” naked the clerk as glanced at the dipping. “It Is an account of a man In New York city who had 360,000 left to him last week by an entire stranger. Twenty years ago be gave this stranger 10 cents to buy jdate of beans. "*“—*“• “Well,” said the cashier, as he pushed tbe dipping hark, “what about It?'* • r l was merely wondering." said the man, “If you felt that you would like to take a cbnuce like that. You never can tell, I might he a millionaire aotue day. and —*’ “Excuse me; I'm busy now.” said the cashier. “Come back In twenty years, sup show me.” “In traveling over the Tennessee tuoun tains a short time ugo I discovered n ram edy for toothache,” said Cyrus Fleming, of Martin. “I stopped at a mountaineer’s house on# night. Along about 2 o'clock In tbe inorn Ing I awoke with a terrible toothache. 1 aroused the whole family with my groans. The old man got up and gladly offered to give me relief. He went our In the yard, got a handful of yellow day. brought It In the house, poured tt In a skillet and be gan heating It. When It was dried out and red hot he made me flap It to my Jaw. The pain for x Just a moment was terrible, but In another momeut my toothache had entirely disappeared. I kept the hot clay on my Jaw until I fell off to sleep. It Is n great remedy.” A letter seeking Information of the daugh ter of Hamilton Mnyflel.l, an aged dtlxen of Phllcampbell. Ala., who died recently, has been received by Sheriff Nelms from John Wedgeworth. of PhllcininbeU. Mr. Wedge worth states that Mayfield s daughter at one time lived lu this dry nnd that she Is heir to some property left by her father. Illness of some three months' duration. State Geologist W. S. Yea tea has resumed hi* duties at the cnpitol. I’utll he fully regains his ktrongtli. Professor Yea ten will have n desk In the office of Kxeentlve Secretary M. Hitch, arranging to have the mineral exhibit re moved from Jamestown ami established in tbe state museum on the third floor of the cnpitol PATTERN8 BARRED BY BOSTON NEWSPAPERS. The lending dry good# merchants in Boston recently sent this petition to the daily newspapers: “The advertising of patterns In the dally papers tends to conflict with the dry goods interest. Thla feature of the business fa email In every establish ment In the country as far as aggre gate sales are concerned. These de partments are maintained as a means for attracting customers to the stores, and liberal expenditures are made, con sidering the sales, by the distribution of what are termed fashion sheets. "The business of such departments is not large enough to Justify expensive newspaper advertising, and the under- ... signed do not think It fair for the news- cola: Lieutenant G. F. Neel, to charge papers to become competitors of their : I?!* 1 * 0 ♦ advertisers In this, or any other navy recruiting station. Omaha P. Blackburn, detached navy recruiting its tlou, Omaha, to Milwaukee. Movements of Vessels. Arrived—Novemlter M. Justin at Honolulu; Wasp at Huntington, t L; November 11. Dubuque at Guantanamo; Dolphin at !*eague Islam!; Eagle at Norfolk. Hailed—XovemU-r II, Wasp from Huntlng- A Cornwall paper, pointing out tb* advan tages of a holiday In Cornwall, *aya: “Down here the moral atmosphere is at pure aa tbe “**- ‘ ■ and bracing. There • whole of Cornwall,*' There are eighty-five widows lu Donrdoln* hatu. Maine, a village of 1.909 Inhabitants. The youngest Is 29 aud tbe oldest widow fa 99 years old. As a result «.f recent accident* to tarlo»i. lt -"L/"ZIT”"- navies the British warahlpa will have their I ferial feature, but now that fanh- Migaxlnv* with refrigerating machlii rut* can be made so cheaply In branch of their business, that, on consideration, you will agree with us and decide to discontinue It.” The Boston Herald, Traveler Post, American, nnd Record all granted the request of the merchants. The Tran script, Globe. Advertiser and Journal never handled patterns. Speaking of the Boston petition The- ron McCnmpbell. manager of the Home Pattern Company. New York, said: “Publishers, it should be noted in passing, never handled patterns be cause of the money in It. for aa a mat ter of fact they not only did not get enough to pay for the apace, but hardly enough to pay the cost of handling the orders and the complaints, and there bar always been a lot of complaints, due to delay. “The publishers used patterns as an By M. A. RUSSELL. ' It has bean taught by some eminent as- tronomers that life could not exist on some of the planets In our solar system on ac count of extreme cold and heat. It Is the writer's purpose to prore that w# can have the same conditions on each planet that we have here on earth. We will start our observations at our equator, or center belt of the earth. Here we have perpetual heat. At sea level, tbe host is mnch more noticeable than on tha low mountains near tbe coast. At sea level our atmosphere Is the most dense, but when we get on top of the highest mountains we find snow and Ice that Is there Jhe year round. Now. If we should go up In a balloon we would find the atmosphere to get tbtliner and thinner, and we would get colder and colder until there would seem to be no limit to the cold. Sow. what conclusions should we draw? Do you think It Is tbe nearest plnnet.to tbe sun, or the one with the most dense at mosphere. that gets the most heat? The mere dense the atmosphere, that much more la heat generated, therefore, when ..'e have t>een taught by our aetrono- mera that Mercury, being only 36.000,000 miles from tbe sun. the heat would bt so great that animal and vegetable^ life coulu not exist. And Neptune, being 2,800,- 000.000 miles nway. the extreme could would bar all life. Now, we will try to And whether Nep tune gets sufficient sunlight, for the need* of Its probable animal and vegetable Ilf*. We know that no planet gives out any light of Its own. and we ouly sec then, by reflected sunlight. Now. as Neptum ta seen through our large telescopes nn a bright disk, then It Is surely made bright by an abundance of sunlight. In (he Inst few years It has beeu found (hat Uranus aud Nepttiue hare a very den*- atmosphere. Then wliat. Is more natural than for them to have the same conditions of heat and cold that wo have? The argument may lie offered that If von build a fire, tbe closer we get to It ‘tin* hotter we get. Hut we van hardly coiiipar** a auubenm to a red-hot (taker.. But we can compare the sun to u great dynamo, amt the planets to motors, and the sunbeam to wires that connect this great system of worlds that are lu everlasting motion. To Illustrate, we njll put a dynamo i„ Atlanta, and from It run n wire to Macon. Now, we want to distribute heat along th»* wav. We will give a little heat to Fort McPherson, so we will make n slight re*l*. tattoo, nnd there Is n alight bent. If «> want to heat Macon more, we will have S take more resistance to the flow of current a the wire# ««d there Is more heat. Ho n* find It Is not necessary to be close to tbs dynamo to get the most heat. We are tatif 4 -* ' - **- omy that thli . millions of years In ths making, one of their most plausible theories Is that this system was once In a gaseous.' or nebulous, state, and waa billions of miles In extent. And through the course of time, grnduallv condsused and started in a rotary motion, and after partially solidifying, great por tions were thrown off In Its rapid revolu tion. And these portions thrown off art* now tbe worlds that still revolve around the original center, tbe sun. COLONIAL OAMES EXHIBIT. With the recent completion of the fire proof historic building at the Jamestowu exposition and the Installation of the price less exhibition, representing more than n dozen states of the Union, and several of the leading historical societies of tbe coun try, the ter-centeunlal has lidded to its al ready extensive list of exhibits the most Interesting and valuable collection of n his torical nature ever brought together In this country. The e___ collections .... —- - , lea, the Daughters of the American Revolu tion. the Episcopal church nnd the stutes of Virginia. West Virginia. Rhode Island. Ver mont, New Jersey, North Carolina and Mas. snehusetts, Is replete with relics, souvenirs and antique* of American history, from Its verjs* earliest stages, nnd Is In Itself an edu* The Pennsylvania state historical exhibit, tinder the supervision of Albert Cook Myera, Is perhaps tue most conspicuous and hand some collection In the history building, although every display has Its own special features. In this exhibit the history of the state of Pennsylvania Is depleted by a se ries of beautiful oil painting*, from It* set tlement on through the Revolution. Includ ing some famous old Dutch portraits. A large full length portrait of William Penn Is tn« center of n handsome portrait collec tion. A set of lay figures, dressed In the various costumes of the different religious sects tbit have existed In the state from time to time Is another reature of the ex hibit. Tbe Colonial Dames' historic exhibit also one of the Interesting and valuable collections In tbe history building. Arrang ed in separate exhibits of the states repre seated, the collection has many famous por traits, colonial relics nnd document*. A portrait of Alexander Hpottswood, aud two paintings of Gilbert Ktuart being the most noted lu the collection. The exhibit also Includes a wonderful display of old colonial silverware and sliver relics, smoug which Is a silver crown worn by tbe queen of tho Pa monkey Indians, presented to her by King Charles 11 of England. The portraits of the Calvert family, famoua In Maryland history, are also la this collection, ionued bv Mrs. William Reed, of Baltimore. The exhibit by the Daughters of the American Revolution Includes • notable col lection of documents nnd relics, prominent among the latter being a display of dolls of the Revolutionary period. The Episcopal church exhibit la most In teresting, consisting of a collection of rare old silver services from the historical churches of the country. The Virginia atate historical exhibit, which baa been Installed under tbe aus pices of the Httts Library aud the Virginia Historical Horlety, is in charge of William C. Torrence, Blbllogriuiher of the Htate Li brary at Richmond. Thla exhibit Is valued at 3176,000, and la made un largely of state documents, dating from the earliest period of Virginia history up to n recent date. In cluding some of tbe rare old documents of the house of burgesses, and some of the most valuable state papers relative to tbe civil war. North and ftovtb Carolina have Imtb In stalled most creditable exhibits In the his tory building nt the exposition, the most in teresting feature of the former Itelng sn original portrait of Theodosia Hurr. the beautiful daughter of Aaron Burr, one of the most romantic characters In American history. It was stated at sn Inquest on a peasant j a Servian village that the man died from swallowing too many bullets, which he was avcuatoined to take In common with all the peasants In the district whenever he felt 111. The salaries of president* of hanks, even those In the largest Htles, are ns a rule very much less than the salaries of railroad HELIGOLAND. (Tbe Nashville Banner.) The death of Richard Mansfield recalls the fact ‘that he was born on the Islaud of Heli goland, one of tbe poorest and nt the same time one of the most Interesting spots on the globe. In the dispatches that give Mr. Mans field’s biography the Islnml Is spoken of for mally as “Heligoland, Germany,” and It Is now - - - pire, b years. mauy years It belonged to Denmark. Eng land seised It lu 1H07. during tl|»« Napoleonic wars, and In tbe genera! readjustment of Eurppeau affairs following the great shake up that the restless Corsican had given that continent It was formally ceded to Great Brltaiu. Heligoland meant* “holy land.” In (h** esrly days a temple of the Goddess Herthn stood on the Island, aud our remote an cestors. the Angles, came thither from the mainland of Germany to worship it her shrine. Later a great pagan king named Bttdhod had Ids residence and stronghold on the Islaud. and 8t. Willebrod went thither nd preached Chrlatlanlty. Heligoland, situated near the Elb'a mouth, rss In tbe path of the sea rovera that .erne fropi the North apd ravaged the coast of nil southern Europe, and it was for some centuries a bono of contention be tween various bands of Norsemen ami Danes, who wished to make It a basis of their predatory excursions. Finally It hersme permanently a fife of the duke* of Hchleswlg-Holstelii. and they frequently placed It in pawn to the free city of Ham- rg for loans mads them. Rchleswlg-Hol- tin was a part of Denmark, aud that D w the island happened to he DanlMh . rrJtory, when, for strategic reasons, Eng laud seised It In 1307. Under British ruls the Islanders enjoyed the utmost freedom, and almost complete autonomy. They poorly relish the exchange to German rule, which subjects them to strict government regulation from tbe out side and compulsory military service. Heligoland has suffered greatly In time from the ravages of tbs sea. anil Is now really two Islands, the wave* having cut It In twain. It Is divided Into the Ohei land nnd tbe Unterlaml, the higher nnd the lower regions. Its permanent Inhabi tants number shout 2,000. and nt one time they were reduced to about 800. Its mesa temperature In July Is but little more than 60 degrees; Its beaches are fine, 'and for that reason It attracts many summer visi tors from the German cities of Hamburg •ml Bremen and some from Euglaud. in the winter jt Is shut off for month* at n time from all communication with the mainland by atorms and Ice drifts. Durluu these seasons of Isolation Insanity nnd Nutctiie are uncommonly frequent among the Inhabitants. The natives art of mixed genealogy, hnv They aro unable to keep horses, nnd selves do alt the work required of tho animals elsewhere. The land Is spaded nun burdens are carried. In lnrg«* bssketa. Richard Mansfield' was born of the s>» An Innovation nt the College of the City of New York In Its new borne on 8t. Nich olas Heights Is the use of glass blackboards. What I* written on a glass blackboard may be rend from any angle except from be hind It., as Dr. Rnskervllle, professor of chemistry, explained to his stndent*. When o blackboard •‘eases to be a wsll slate, then what will ft liecome? Evidently a new word must he coined. there Is no need for using patterns In lieu of fashions pure and simple. "Now that the merchants of the country, who have so much money ln» vested in patterns and who are the largest advertisers of newspapers, are putting their side of the question up to the publishers, it la almost certain that newspaper patterns will soon go down Into history' along with 'World's Fair Parts* and other old-time schemes. “If I were the publisher of a daily newspaper, I. would go. Immediately to every other publisher and get him to agree not to handle newspaper pat terns. and then notify the dry goods merchants. This would be a compli ment which every merchant would ap preciate.” The laat issue of The Dry Goo«l» Economist contained an article on pat tern publications. In which, among oth. er things, it said: "At a meeting of more than 150 mer chants from alt parts of America, at • la* A .t the U'*l<lorf-A»torla. Augutt St, the conttiMU, or opinion w«, that retail merchant* can reasonably protest againet mail order advertising In pub lication,. laaued by manufacturers of pattern*, which depend to largely upoi every Important office In the country, pattern agencies for their circulation.' POINTED PARAGRAPHS. (From The Chicago New*.) Many a man ha, loat hi, game by booming It too much.. Only unmarried women have optl- miatlc view* of wedded bli**.. Food for thought l* often re«pon*ible for Intellectual dyepepela. Neuralgia and rheumatism come un der the head of aharpehooler*. When the unexpected happen, tbe ''I told you *o" chap I* In hi* glory. Hard luck never ml.ee, an opporn-- nlty to take a fall out of a *oft snap. Don't be atlngy with kind word*, tliey are worth a lot mom than they coat. Charitable people never look upon an undeserved epitaph aa a grave mis take. A wlee man accepts all the advice that la offered him—but he doe,n't u*e It In hi, buelnee*. A woman's Idea of economy I* <‘1 buy a S-cent loaf of bread Inalead ot a dollar sack of flour. When a man calls hi* wife "honev” the explanation I* that It keep* him a* busy aa a bee supplying her want*. Dot* of people will tall you the tfuth )f they think they can fool you that way. Does Not Alwaye Pay. From Tlt-BIte. Flrat Tramp—After all It pay* to be polite, pardner. Second Tramp—Not always The olher day 1 was actin’ deaf and dumb when a man gave me alxpence. I *»> ■ largely upon "Thank you, elr," and he had me » r - — ruud