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1'HE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. JSEHUAY, .NOVCMBKR 2ti THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NEWS) Published Every Afternoon. (Except Sunday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At S Witt Alabama *».. AtltBt*. G«. Subscription Rateai „ Coe Year N g Mi tteatbs ; !5 Tbreq Meatae - »-# :k A Tkoneto*. sdv.rttilne rep- attret foe jU territory outuld. of If too bar* any trouble retting THE GEORGIAN ASV NKWA telephone tbt etreutatloo department and have it promptly remedied. Telephonea: Bell 4*27 mala; Atlanta Ml. . TUB flEOR. uiao a.... Anna ..loeontinited lullit notify this office on the date of eiplra- tlon; otherwise, it will he continued at the regnUr snhacrtptlon ratea until notion to stop Is received. In ordering n change of nddraat, phyae give the old as well at the new It la desirable thnt all communles- tlont Intended for nnhllratlon In THE GEORGIAN ANI) SEWH lie limited to lords In length. It Is Imperative they he signed, as an evidence of faith. Rejected manuscripts Ml THE GEORGIAN AND NEW8 prints no uncletn or objectionable advertis ing. Neither doss It print wblskj or any liquor ads. OUR PLATFORM: THE GEORGIAN AND NEW* stands for Atlanta - ! own ing |tl own css and electrfo light nan A »e It now owns Its water Works. Other cities do this and get "as at low aa «0 cent*, with a prollt should be dons at 332%! they are. 'there la no good reason why they can not be to ojjatv gtad her*. But we do not believe this nan ha dona now, and It may be aome yeara before we are ready for 10 b e an undertaking. Mill Atlantn should art Ita fact In that direction NOW. Billy Smith germs to have his team properly Rigged out for next season. A Boer war veteran hae married, ■howfng thet he still possesses valor of a high order. Probably len't noceeesry to remind you that now la the time to do your Christmas shopping. If you can’t be thankful'for any thing tn particular. Just be thankful for everything In general. London proposes kilts for evening wear. So far the suggestion hai met with rather a chilly reception. "Speech of throne read before diet" Is a newspaper headline. Must have been kind of a cure for Indigestion. Is the statement of the New York World that the government Is sound another stab at Teddy for talking so much? More pretty girls pass a given point on Whitehall street In an hour any aftomoon than Houston, Texas, can muster In a.week. The star boarder shudders at the thought of a shortage In the grits crop. It would be about the last foot! product to fall, however. Ideas some folk entertained that Governor Hughes was a frigid propo sition are subject to amendment re cently, as he Is warming up quite a bit. » It la said Bowdro Phlnlxy can plow a steer In a new ground with one hand, and write a sizzling editorial on the Georgia railroad with the other. Pessimists to the rear. This Is no time for any save the suuny optimist, and be is certainly In the majority preaching the country back to sane and normal conditions. At any rate, every Georgian who can not afford a Thanksgiving turkey, nan at least dine on collards and pot llckor, which beat the best turkey hi the country to a frazzle. Here's the rub about It. One paper aays that Bryan did all the talking and Roosevelt listened during that memorable interview. This does stretch credulity powerfully. The most unfeeling judge In the world lives In Canada. He ruled that the theater managers could not com pel women to remove their hats dur ing s performance. Mrs. judge prob ably made that decision. Vncle Joe Cannon will assemble In the southern end of the national capi tal at noon Monday. The usual num ber of men who rest tinder the cheer ful hallndnatlou that they help shape and mold laws will bn cn hand. Time le coming when travel on a railroad in Georgia will lie as safe as perfect roadbeds will make it. If the Georgia railroad commission accom plished nothing else. It would deserve the lasting gratitude of the people for making them so. In- Red-headed widows are not digenous to Texas, slthough a pe rusal of the paragraphic panegyrics of The Houston Post might lead some persons, unacquainted with the char acter of the paragrapher of the afore- esld journal, to think so. DIFFERENT KINDS OF MONEY. The Hon. Tom Watson's going to Washington to talk money meth ods with President Roosevelt, Mr. Duckworth's and Mr. Ladson’s trip for the same purpose and the talk about money methods In general, while Incidents not calling for any special comment from The Georgian at this time. do. however, make a little history and Information opportune Juet now. Mr. Duckworth suggests that we should have an elastic currency that would take care of several hundred million dollars of crops during the harvesting season, and shrink to norms) during the balance of the year. ^ Mr. Watson still sticks to his old Idea of "greenback" money. Some of our readers may have forgotten what the greenback issue wss, and we will turn back the pages of history a little and see. The necessities of the Civil war led to Lincoln’s signing an author izing act in 1862 for the issue of one hundred and fifty millions of legal tender notes that became known as "greenbacks" because they were printed in green Ink. This wae the first act ever passed by congress making anything but coin legal tender. These greenbacks were the gov ernment's notes, so to speak, without security beyond the Integrity of the nation. They were not secured by motley In the treasury or In banks, and stood or fell as the country stood or fell. Money Issued by the Confederacy stood on the same basis, and If the Confederacy had won, we would not hare hundred dollar Confederate bills for curiosi ties todty—the/ would have been worth something. They stood or fell as the Confederacy stood or fell. These greenbacks were not legal for Import dntles nor payable by the government as interest on its debts. Several other Issues were made and finally four hundred and fifty millions of them were out. The anxiety over the outcome of the war and the fear that, even If victorious, the government would be unable to pay face value for the notes drove down the value of the greenbacks until In 1864 they were worth on the average 45 cents on the dollar, and In July they dropped to 35 c,nt*. in 1866 the secretary of the treasury expressed the opinion in hJs report that they should be withdrawn at the earliest possible moment and the country return to a gold standard, and, by n voto of 144 to 6, congress agreed with him, both houses thereupon agreeing on a reducing act. The volume of greenbacks was reduced until 1868, when it wss stopped and Increased again till in 1874. when the country entered upon the period known aa the "panic years," 1874 to 1878, there was a maxi mum fixed by congress limiting the amount of greenbacks to three hun dred and eighty-two millions. Then followed a series of court proceed ings, test cases, etc., and finally a decision of the supreme court that greenbacks were unconstitutional. Two years later. In 1871, this decision was reversed, and the whole matter passed from view when the gold standard bill was passed. There were arguments for and against the greenback idea. . The greenback party held a convention In 1874, and Its first resolution was that no currency be used except that “based on the faith and resources of the nation." Men reading this today will say that It was unsafe and that wo could not think of using money or certificates not secured, dol lar for dollar, by real money, but If we stop to think, while we only use circulating mediums that are secured, dollar for dollar, and, In the caso of our clearing house certificates securities, are held by the clearing house committee for one and a half times the face value of the certifi cates, yet our most substantially considered seourltles, government bonds, rest on nothing more and nothing less than did the green backs of 1864—the “faith and resources” of the country. Conditions, though, at this time, make such bonds tho most secure of ail invest ments, and they are tn demand at lower Interest than any security on the market. These bonds, of course, are the securities accepted from national banks to cover their issues of circulating medium. Why not, then, return to “greenbacks" as a whole? These seem to be some of the reasons: The Integrity of the country Is made up of the acts and progress of our eighty-five millions of people as a whole, the welfare of whom every man will fight for to the last ditch. Consequently the flat or security that is behind our government bonds Is the life blood of s nation of united people, who are working and prospering as no other nation does. It does not seem to us, though* that this sort of security should extend to every transaction of life and business, for there must bs a line be yond which this fiat or faith must have a tangible representation In things of value. We grant that this would not bo necessary If all men were true and loved mankind—if wo lived In that place of Walt Whit man'! Imagination; "I dnmm’i! (n « dream, I saw a city InrtnrfMe to tho Attacks of tho whnl* of tho rpat or the earth, . 'it (trenmeil thnt wna the city of Friends! "Nothing wso greater there than the quality lit mhust lore—It led the rest, "It tvaa aeeti every hour In the actions of the tneli of thnt elty, "And In all their looks and wurds." But we do not so live—men are not ideals—things are not Utopian any further than each man makes It so far himself by what he dues fur another. Ideal oondltlons would make money and notes and promises and security of no necessity. But while a sufficient majority of the American people are as a unit on tho question of our country's welfare and integrity, still on other things of life we are so selfish, so full of bickerings, that we can not deal satisfactorily nmeng ourselves without the "yards of cloth, the beads and the fire water” of our predecessors. Wo are not greatly removed from the Indian except in the degree of our refinement, and so long as some men have a mania to get everything on earth and have It credited to their bank account, whiio millions suffer want, there is little likelihood that It would be safe to commit the nation's system of exchange entirely to a basis of faith and confidence. "No one Is bo wholly right that he can say another is wholly wrong.” Maybe wo are wrong. We are a happy people, though, as a whole. PRESENT STATUS OF THE BRYAN CAMPAIGN. The campaign actively Inaugurated recently In behalf of Hon. Wil liam Jennings Bryan as presidential nominee of the Democratic party, has grown In Interest and Importance during the past week. Mr. Bryan's statement to tho American public, In which he as sumed an accopttve position, while pledging loyal support to his party and to any other presidential nominee who may lead, the great political fight of 1908, has prealpltated a very serious consideration of Mr. Bryan’s claims by the press, the politicians and also by the great mass of the voters of the nation. Many of the strongest, most influential newspapers of the country are fearless In their advocacy of the expediency of nomi nating Mr. Bryan, claiming that he, and only he, can lead to victory the great political organtxatlon which hat already twice honored him as Its standard bearer. Other Democratic journals of equal repute and follow ing bitterly oppose a further consideration of Mr. Bryan as a leader or candidate. A significant event of the past few days is the action taken by several hundred prominent Democrats of Jefferson county, Alabama, In which Birmingham is situated, who hare Issued an address to the public, setting forth their uncompromising opposition to Mr. Bryan and announcing their determination to prevent. If possible, his Indorsement as presidential nominee by the state Democratic convention of Alabama. This organized effort in opposition to Mr. Bryan has proven an incentive to tho Alabama friends and followers of the great Nebraskan, who are already preparing to work for his Indorsement at the next convention in that state. At the conference held a few days ago of the national committeemen of the Democratic party at French Lick Springs, it is reported that friends of Governor Folk, of Missouri, and Governor Johnson, of Minne sota, positive!} - declared that neither of these distinguished men would consider the vice presidential nomination if Mr. Bryan shall be selected to lead the Democratic ticket. These facts give s new and Intensely In teresting phase to a political issue now confronting the American people. The banquet and reception tendered Mr. Bryan Tuesday night at the Raleigh Hotel, Washington, D. C„ by the "United Democracy of the District of Columbia -- was a remarkable tribute to this distinguished man. Many of the prominent political leaders of the Democratic party from various sections of the country were In attendance and made addresses warmly advocating the claims of Mr. Bryan and urging the expediency of his nomination. It was past midnight when Mr. Bryan arose to make bis speech, but he was greeted with wild enthusiasm, snd the strong, telling points of his eloquent address were received with heartiest ap- proval by the fifteen hundred guests present. After discussing at length railroad legislation, the expense of Imperialism and other kindred ques tions, Mr. Bryan closed his eloquent speech with an optimistic view of future Democratic success, saying: "The time Is ripe for a Democratic appeal to the Demo cratic sentiment of the country. There Is no doubt that a large majority of the people take the democratic, rather than the aris tocratic, view of the government and of society. ’ All that we have to do Is to convince those who are really democratic in sentiment that the Democratic party can be trusted to be demo cratic if intrusted with power. I believe that In the coming con gress our Democratic senators and representatives will prove themselves equal to the task Imposed upon them, and demon strate the fidelity of the party to Democratic principles. Then, with a united party, we can face a divided opposition nnd enter the campaign with the assurance of a victory.” Coincident with these happenings a committee appointed by the Ten- neasee Democratic convention held at Nashville, November 12, has Just issued an address urging the availability of a Southern man as president. Hon. James D. Porter, chairman of the Tennessee committee, has sent the address broadcast over the country, and an early expression of the people's view of the position taken by the Democrats of Tennessee can be expected. The campaign for and against Mr. Bryan is beginning In deadly earnest and no more interesting feature of the movement is in evi dence than thtB address Just presented by the Democrats of Tennessee favoring the nomination of a Southern man for prenident. Definitely and forcefully It lets forth the plea of the Tennesseeans for a Southern nominee in which a large proportion of Southern Democrats most of necessity be In thorough sympathy and accord. It is a courage ous statement from every point of view and should evoke the hearty ap proval of Democrats, regardless of sectional and geographical lines. The address says In part: The Democratic party had Us birth, in the South. Thomas JelterBon, who was the founder of the jrarty and the original promulgator or Democratic principles, was a Southern man. The greatest successes of the party were under the leadership of Southern men, yet for more than half a century the South has furnished no Democratic candidate for the presidency. The na tional Democratic party has nominated no Southern man for the first place on the presidential ticket since It was led by Janies K. Polk, In 1844. During all these years the South has furnished a majority of the electoral votes In behalf of Northern candi dates, and claimed nothing for itself. We approach the subject In no sectional spirit. The South is no outlying province and the recognition of a Southern man would, more than anything else, emphasize the unity of the na tion. The spirit that inspires this movement is entirely national. The executive and cabinet ofilctirs and* our diplomatic represen tatives abroad for many years have come from one section of the nation and to continue that policy would be to give the gov ernment an aspect of sectionalism. The full and free participation of the South In ail affairs of the government would obliterate that Idea. It la with a view of accomplishing this desirable re sult that this movement Is begun. We do not wish to nominate a man unless he stands pre-emi nently for statesmanship and executive ability, but we have a firm and abiding belief that there are many men of that character in the South. The freer conditions would develop men who would measure up to the standards of the founders of Democracy nnd the men of those times when Southern statesmanship attracted the attention of the world. In all qualities of leadership the South is not behind other sections, and at this particular time it has men equal to the best that the past has produced. As Southern Democrats, we present this claim of the South to the Democuts of the nation and ask their sympathy and sup port. and ask that they remember the .fidelity with which the South has always adhered to the Democratic cause. The Democ racy of the South Is entirely free from the domination of cor porate interest and predatory wealth. At the same time the South has always been regarded as the bulwark of conservatism, nnd the victory of the Democratic party under Southern leader ship would mean the restoration of the government to those principles which were laid down by the founders of the republic when that government was considered best which governed least. THE CLING OF BABY HANDS. The mightiest lever In the world to lift a man out of the ruck and worry of dally business cares Is the laughter of a child and the cjlng of soft little arms. To come home at eventide, weighted with the vexations, the trials nnd the nerve-racking toils of an arduous day, to find a sunny little face greeting you at the door; to see Infinite trust mirrored In baby ish eyes; to hear the rippling music of happy laughter: to have little arms outstretched in greeting and soft Kps pressed to yours, Is to feel cares and frets fall away as a discarded garment. The troubles, the long, sleepless vigils, the unceasing attentions given to a child are more than compensated by the joy and pride felt in the Infinite variety of an unfolding nature, the development of char acter and the expansion of a soul. This love of a child rises far above mawkish sentiment. To bear with It patiently when your own nerves are at tension, to sacrifice to its moods nnd changeable child nature your own feelings is a duty un mistakable. If difficult. But faithful discharge of these duties brings Its own reward In the perfect and unstudied devotion of your child. To take tho little one on your knee and listen to prattle of the day's childish cares and joys is to minimize your own trials, and bring to your pillow sweet and untroubled slumber. ■'I hid her safe within my heart. ‘My heart,’ I said, ‘is all for you,’ But lo! She left the door ajar and all the world came flocking through. She lay and smiled and In her eyes i watched my narrow world grow broad, Within her tlpy, crumpled hand I touched the mighty hand of God.” ARMY-NAVY ORDERS AND MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS. Army Order*. Washington, Nov. 26.—^Captain Arthur 8. Conklin, coast artillery corps, and First Lieutenant Robert H. Culler, assistant surgeon, detailed member! examining board Fortress Monroe, vice Captain Edward P. Nones, quartermas ter and Flret Lieutenant Lloyd L, Smith, assistant surgeon. First Lieu tenant William J. O'Laughlln from Fourteenth to Thirteenth Infantry. Captain Robert H. Blanchard, assist ant surgeon, upon arrival at San Fran cisco, to Fort Wingate. Lieuten ant Colonel Robert J. C. Irvine, retired, from organised mtlltlq of Michigan, to home. First Lieutenant Oeorge M Holley from Fourth to Eleventh Infan try. Flret Lieutenant Robert D. Good' win from Eleventh to Fourth Infantry. Captain William M. Morrow, Twenty- first Infantry, to army transport serv ice, Newport Newa, Va. Captain R. O. Van Horne, Seven teenth Infantry, report to chief of staff at Washington. Lieutenant Col onel Francis H. French, Inspector gen eral, from Department of Dakota td Manila. March 6. as Inspector general Philippines division, vice Lieutenant Colonel W. D. tlbur. Inspector gen eral. to Philippine*. Major Augustus P. Blocksen, relieved as assistant to tnspsetor general. Department of the Columbia, to Philippines. March 6. First Lieutenant George C. Muffin, Twenty-first infantry, having been found by retiring board tncajiacttated for active service on account of disa bility, Is retired. Navy Orders. Captain J. Dorn, retired, appointed governor of Guam. Lieutenant Com mander, J. C. Leonard, additional duty. Inspector of ordnance, Philadelphia; Lieutenant W. J. Mote* commissioned. Movements of Veessls. Arrived—November 22, Stockton, at Annapolie; November 23. Strlngham, Thornton and Delong at Annapolis; Marcellua at Philadelphia; Justice at Mare Island; Vorktown at Han Fran cisco; West Virginia. Colorado, Mary land and Pennsylvania at Venice, Cat. Sailed—November >1, Leonidas. Portsmouth. N. II., for Newport News; Yorktown from Mare Island for Han Francisco. TRADING ON 'CHANGE. To the Editor of The Georgian: A* f understand, when cotton or any other commodity is traded on the exchanges -for future delivery It la don# at the "seller'* option." This Is con strued to mean that the seller has the option either to tender the commodity or settle at the market difference. The buyer has no option to demand the actual stuff. Now, according to the rule of supply and demand, the seller lias full liberty nnd latitude to supply oil he may wish, but the buyer can not demand one bale of cotton or other commodity. Now, aa a fairly large •qpply tends to cause a decline price* and a limited demand docs the same, it la clear that the chances are always, so far as trading on the ex changes goes. In favor of lower prlcaq. It seems to me that the fairer and more Just rule would be to put seller and buyer on the same footing, which Is to say, let the seller tender the cot ton, If be wishes to, and also let the buyer demand It if he wishes. It Is argued by some that such a rule would slop all speculating on the exchange. To this I reply that unless It can be done on a fair and juat bostfc, it should be stopped. N. II. BA88. Lavender. Ga. ANOTHER VIEW OF IT. (From The Nashville Tennessean.) The Rev. Len G. Broughton, of At lanta, opines In a red-lire Interview that "the Georgia capital has no may- referring to W. R. Joyner, the present incumbent, who Is also at the head of the Atlanta ball club, "but a good Kill manager and a horse Jockey." With all due reverence and respect to our own chief official, there are several Ip this city who would be willing to trade off a good mayor for n good ball manager. The Rev. Len G. Broughton should remember that good mayors are much more plentiful -than good ball manager*. The municipal authorities of Lau sanne hove forbidden the playing of dtabolo In the public streets, on the ground that the game Is a nuisance. There will be 992 delegate* In the Republican national convention of 1908. with 497 vole* necessary to a choice. Of these 992 delegates 332 sill come from tbe Southern states. MADDOX-RUCKER BANKING, CO., CORNER ALABAMA AND BROAD STS. ESTABLISHED 1880. Capital $200,000.00 Surplus and Profits $600,000.00 Banking in all its Branches Growth and Frogress of the New South The Georgian heri* record* eneb Uny nouje economic fact In reference to ibe ooirara progress of tbe South. BY JOSEPH B. LIVELY Tbe Gcoffin nnd Alflhmnn Industrial Index says In Its Issue for this week: '•Unchecked Hint undisturbed by tbe rerent Uunucial flurry, now practically but n reroJlerfldjj, tho Jmluxtrinl development In Georglu and Alabama continues with steady stride. Indeed. It might almost be said that the pare Is quickened, for the past seven days have WltflUSMd the project ion nnd the undertaking of softie of tbe largest enterprise* of the past several week*. Investments, largo of tbeui- NoivcH nml of far-rtMchtiig consequence, are being made without Interruption. Con (FHiotis woh* never more prospered* and the. outlook so promising lit Georgia and Alabama n* b true today, rontrart ha* been awarded for the entire construct len of mi electric mllwity between Atlanta and Augusta, On., a distance of about 3v3 miles. Thin line will furnish ImUi freight and passenger perrlcst, nnd will help to tipthiUd as could nothing e!*e the section which It will traverse. An Anniston, Ala., contractor ha* been awarded contract to build two locks In the Tomldg- !»♦*? river nt o <*ost of f1.030.000. Eastern capital has tieen Invested in the purchase of 1C.OOO acres of north Alabama mineral and timber land* Which will bo develop ed upon an extensive scale. A $300,000 marble company has been Incor|K>rnted nt * *— *—will bcr*“ —*“ — in January. $260,000 will land company with capita! Talladega, Ain. At Americas, On v construction next, or n power plant nnd electric street rath be invested, partially by Philadelphia capitalist*, of $100,000 has been organized in Augusta. On. “Among other Industrial enterprises to be established, The Index reports the following: “lintton factory. Mobile, Ain.; cotton mill, oil mill nnd fertiliser factory. Ar lington, Urt.; electric light plants, nine Illdge, Git., nnd Colmuhiann. Ala.; grnn- Ite quarries. Klberton. On.; steel mill nnd ./furnaces, Ensley, Ala.; electric power plant. Colttmhlnu/i. Ain., nnd potteries extension*. Augusta, On. “Numerous eouHtruetlon Items are reported, among them being, In addition to residences nnd business buildings, the following: “Steel bridge.* Pierce county, Georgia; union depot, Monroe, On,: paving, Hunts- vIJJe, Ain., nnd Savannah, Ga., and sewers and water works system. Blue Itldgc. Ga. An election ban been ordered nt Uornesvllle, On., upon the proposed Issuance of $43,003 of municipal bonds for building dormitory ana extending electric light plant nnd water works system. Buildings nud dormitory for industrial school will be erected nt Chalybeate Springs, Ga. •New bank will be established nt Springfield; Ga.. and rapttft! stock of bunk at “to $103,000. Niue new corporations re reported." Covington. Ga.. will be Increnned from $37.5c with total minimum capital stock of $490,000 PEOPLE AND THINGS GOSSIP FROM THE HOTELS AND THE STREET CORNERS Governor Hoke Smith has been men tioned more than onee In the past sev eral months ns a possible nominee on the national Democratic ticket, elthet to head .lt or for second place. To all this talk Governor Smith hoe paid no attention, nnd offered no comment. Now he Is strongly mentioned In con nectlon with the national prohibition ticket. With the tremendous growth of the prohibition movement all over tho country, with Georgia breaking tho way for state prohibition In the South, the party has assumed a new Impor tance. It is said to be the purpose of the party to go outside next year for "now stock" In (ts candidates, re gardless of political affiliations. While Governor Smith favored local option he signed the law in this state, Rnd Is known to heartily favor Its en forcement to the letter. If a national law can be pa>sed forbidding the ship ment of liquor Into dry states. Gov ernor Smith feels that statutory pro hibition Is the right thing. As an in dication of tho fqrce of the new htu- tlonal prohlbiton movement the leaders are consderlng Governor Smith, of Georgia, Governor Folk, of Missouri; Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma; Sen ator LaFollette, of Wisconsin, and Senator Galllnger, of New Hampshire, as possible candidates for the presi dency. A large delegation from Oakland, Cal., to the National Rivers and Har bors Congress, which will be held In Washington, December 4, 5 and 6, will spend Saturday In Atlanta, this city being selected as one of the six main g olnts in Its Itinerary through the outh. , It seems tike a cinch to go out to the home of a person In distress when told where thnt person lives, but the staff of the Associated Charities does not always find It this way. One of thqse cases o? distress came to the attention of the office Wednes day. Being Just before Thanksgiving, the party who discovered the case was in haste to tell the Associated Charities about It. The telephone bell In the office rang and Miss Margaret Lalng answered It. "Is this the Associated Charities?" "Yes. ma’am." "Well, I've Just heard of an awful case of distress.” "We will certainly be glad to know about the detail*,” "I don't know much about It, but I'll tell you how to get there. You go out Fourteenth street to Richards and Tumlln streets nnd then you look for two chimneys sticking up In the air where a house burned down. Look around a little and you'll find a negro woman named Lula. She fives some where near there In a cabin and she’ll tell you all about the ease." Oh, yes, thank you. We'll look aft er It right away.” And Miss Lalng did. But she had a regular Shetlock Holmes Job In doing it. Captain J. O. Roberts, one of the best known men In Cherokee county and well known over the state as a mineral rt. was In town Wednesday con sulting Atlanta capitalists about a gold mine tn his county, which promises to develop Into a rich one. This mine, while one or the oldest In the state, Is really a new one, for the reason that gold In rich deposits has been recently found there. Until re cently It has been In ihs possession of the late Governor Cobb, of Ala bama. from the time the land was drawn In the old land lottery. A short time ago It was purchased by several Atlanta people and Captain Roberts Is developing It. He Is enthusiastic about the prospects and believes gold will be taken out In large quantities. The mine Is located at Holly Springs. "It’s remarkable what varied opin ions different people have on the same subject,” remarked Solicitor Lowry Arnold, of the city court, as he chewed reflectively on a cigar and gazed thoughtfully out the window of his office. "What's the trouble, solicitor? Wit nesses get crossed up In a case?” In quired a reporter who dropped In. •‘No. Trees!" laconically answered the solicitor, and after some more thoughtful gaztng, he continued: “I have recently Interested myself In the subject of trees, with a view to dis covering their peculiarities, habits of life, manner of growth, etc., etc., in or der that I might successfully transplant a few at my home out at East Lake. It's a different proposition from prose cuting a case. I have consulted dozens of people, old and young, and no two think alike. I have been advised to plant ’em In the spring, the fall, the summer, the dead of winter, in the dark of the moon, in the first quarter and In the last; plant 'em with the north side to the north and the south side to the south, some say It doesn't make any difference and some say It does, and some say plant 'em with the top cat out, and some say leave It on. But every Individual has told me that I needn't plant 'em at oil unless their rule for planting was observed. "There you have It. It’s the subject of-trees that's on my mind. To plant ’em, or not to plant ’em, that Is the question.” And the solicitor picked up a copy of Blacketone as If ts seek some weigh ty opinion on the subject from th* great authority on law. The education of a bird dog le be coming more diversified. Once all he had to know how to do waa to find the birds and stand them. Then he was taught to retrieve and do other tricks, nnd now he must be able to successful ly balance himself on the rear of an automobile when hi* master goes hunt ing in a busz-wagon. Out Capitol avenue and to the woods and fields an automobile sped early Wednesday morning. Two be-leggln- ed sportsmen sat on the front seat with their guns and other apparatue. On the space behind where the tonneau is attached two pointers rode In fine style. The automobile was going at a rapid rate, but the dogs kept their places with the greatest ease. “Beats the old way," growled the one with the liver-colored markings. "Yep, saves time," yelped the lemon- spotted dog, "but It's rather risky," and he closed hts eyea to shut out the sight of the houeea and trees that flew by at a sickening rate. Assistant Genera) Passenger Agent James J. Puller, of the Seaboard Air Line, left Atlanta Wednesday for a trip of Inspection around his territory. He will not return to Atlanta until some time next week and In the mean time will visit Birmingham, Memphis, Nashville and other points. "Jack" Futrclle, better -known through hie pen name of Jacques Fu- trelle, and Mrs. Futrelie, both well known writers of short stories, are In Atlanta to epend several weeks be tween now and the holidays. They ar. rived Tuesday from Ihelr summer home In Scltuate, Mass. Both are becoming widely known as clever writers, Mr. Futrelle'e “Batty Logan" stories In the Saturday Evening Post and Mrs. Fu- trelle's contributions to Uncle Remus'! ond other magazines having been among the most readable stories of tho season. Consul F. W. Mahln states that the total annual value of Nottingham's lace output Is 325,000.000. The United States le the largest Individual buyer, taking a quarter of the total. Berlin's patrolmen are I to 146. Liv erpool’s are 1 to 449, London’* 1 to 496 and Philadelphia has one patrolman for every Ml citizens. On Manhattan Is land there Is but one policeman to every 641 Inhabitants. DO I NEED GLASSES? Xo dpubt you have had thi* thought In your mind many time*, when Buffering with headache, inflamed eye« or blurred vision. Why not settle the question and perhaps relieve the trouble at at once by utilising our skill In refractive examinations of the eye. A.K.Hawkes Co., Opticians, 14 Whitehall and 125 Peachtreeten" )