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THE ATLANTA GX'TOGIA.N AND NUTTS* SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30./191I. THE ATLANTA (AND NEWS) F. L. SEELY, Publisher. EDWIN CAMP. Menaalng Editor. Published Every Afternoon (Except Sunday.) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama-at.. Atlanta, Ga. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year Six Months *##••••• , .94.80 ,. 2.60 a 1.25 One Month *?2 By Carrier, Per Week * ; 10 Telephones Connecting All Departments. Long Distance Terminals, The Fifth Regiment Complete. Atlanta may now felicitate itself on having a complete regi ment of the national guard. The full quota of twelve companies has been reached with the organ- , iration of the last of the five i try gripped him nt»ll. Tt bonam companies that have been in thejbis ruling passion. TTo went thru work by a process of formation for the last Europe, he visited this country, ’ K 'ew weeks. postoffice at Atlanta, "Gis!". iinder the act of March I. 1179. J. R, Palmer, Foreign Traveling nepre- sentatlve. Address, care The Georgian. Atlanta, ba. If you have any trouble getting The Georgian and News, telephone the cir culation department and have it promptly remedied. Both phonoe 8000. Subscribers deelrlng The Goorgtah and Newe discontinued must notify this 8 fflee on the date of expiration, otherwise : will be continued at the regular aub- acrlptlon ratee until notice to step le re ceived. In ordering a change of address, pleoe* glra the old ae well aa the new addreaa. L It le deelrable that all communication!! Intended for publication In Tbs Georgian and News be limited to 100 words In length. It la Imperative that they be signed, aa an evidence of good faith. Re jected manuscripts will not oe returned unless stamps are sent for the purpoee. _ _ _ _ print* no « clean or objectionable advertising matter. Neither does It print whisky or liquor ada. SMALL BEGINNINGS A travaler thru a dusty rosd strswed acorns on ths lea, And one took root and sprouted up, and grew Into a tree. Love aought It* alted*. at evening time, to breathe Ita early vows) And age was pleased, In heate of poon, to bask beneath Its boughs) The dormouse loved Its dangling twigs, . the birds sweat music borei It stood a glory In Its place, a blessing evermore. A little aprlno had lost Its way amid the grass and fern, A passing stranger scooped a wall, where weary man might turn; Ha walled It In and hung with care a ladle at the brink, Ha thought not of the dead ha did, but Judged that toll might drink. Ha pasaed again, and lol the wall, by summers never dried. Had cooled ten thousand parching tongues, and saved a Ilfs bssldt. dreamer dropped a random thought! •twas old and yet ’twae newi A simple fancy of the brain, but strong In being true. It shone upon a genial mind, and lol Ita light becama A lamp of life, a beacon ray, a monitory flame. Ths thought was email! Its Issue great; a watch-fire on the hill. It shade Ita radiance far adown, and cheers the valley etllll s. A nameleea man, amid a crowd that thronged the dally mart, Let 1 fall * word of Hope end Love, un studied. from the heart; whleper on the tumult thrown—a transitory breath— t raised a brother from ths dust! It saved a aoul from death. O germ) O fount! O word of loval O thought at random east! Yo wars but little at ths first, but mighty at the last. —Charles Mackay. the pioneer, the vanguard of material advancement, and in a large sense of civilization as well. We give much time to the thought and practice of, politics and economics. But science can come along, and with one dis covery, one invention, stop ail our thought and practice and turn it into an entirely different channel. What have railroads, steam ships, telegraphs, and telephones done for the world! Gradually, unobtrusively remolded civiliza tion. They have rendered obso lete many problems, many con ditions that fised to vex the war riors and statesmen of the past. Tis true they have brought many of their own, but no one is so Stupid ns to be willing to forego them on that account. The scientist is par excellence the great civilizer. Atlanta, therefore, rejoices to entertain the 1913 convention, both for the presence of its dis tinguished members and for the significance of the work in which they are engaged. The United States of China. A republic for China, long talked of, long predicted, has at last been launched. It has been set on its way to encounter what ever the future may hold for it, whether that be good fortune or failure. Representatives of the eighteen provinces of China proper, with out waiting fop further negotia tions with the Imperialists, met at Nanking, bound themselves into a federation, declared for a republican form of government, and elected *Dr. Sun Yat Sen president. It is a formal declaration of freedom' made both to the Man- ehu dynasty and to the world. By reason of it China becomes the stage of the greatest drama of the day—the struggle of new ideas and new ideals to overcome and supplant conditions outworn And outgrown. The time for compromise seems past. It is either empire or republic. One must survive and one must perish. China has indeed reached the' parting of the ways. It is not long after a great drama like this is staged before there enters the chief character. History in the making always evolves its man of destiny. The Chinese crisis presents Dr. Sun Yat Sen. who, notwithstanding the price of $50,000 upon his head, offered by the Chinese gov ernment, has been Inhering for year* in many parta of the world for Chinese freedom. He must he numbered among the great “eome-baeks” of his tory. In 1995 a revolutionary plot was discovered at Canton. The conspirators were seized nnd executed- all except Dr. Sun. He escaped and became a Brit ish subject, but zeal for the cause of the revolutionists of his conn- THIS WEEK IN COTTON By JOSEPH B. LIVELY Little was accomplished during the four bullneas days on the cotton exchange the past week. Prt(?e movements were narrow, the trend was toward Improvement, and, with the exception of the labor trouble In the Lancaahlre district, there has been ho fresh new* of a bearish nature. The belief has been general in acme quarter* that with the closing up of the December deal*, the market would begin Us movement downward to the elght-cent level. The December option expired at noon Friday. Price* In the afternoon were advanced to the high level* of the. week. Big »pot people bought. Investor* bought, and shorts covered. The Investor Is a new element In the market, and buying of this charac ter has been lacking up to now, due to the long-continued enormous move ment from the farms, and while the marketing continues on a compara tively heavy scale. It Is believed the market has discounted all bearish In fluences on this crop, and attention Is being turned to the next. It Is said the loss to the South as a result of over-production of cottoz the current season will be 8150,000,000 to 1800,000,000. The farmers will not plant 35,000,000 acres to cotton the coming season. There will be a sharp curtailment, some say 85 per cent. If this proves to be correct, this cotton Is now on the bargain counter. The week-end statistics are beginning to show more bullish. Takings by spinner* continue on a Urge scale, and stocks are Increasing less rap idly than a year ago. The movement Into sight the past week dropped from the 690,000 mark to less than 600,000. As compared with the previous week prices show advances of from 4 to 14 points, the largest gain being In next crop positions. ■' ; The Lancashire labor trouble has not affected the market to any appreciable degree as yet. However, If It continues end spreads. It will have a depressing influence. A market report has this to say of the lockout: "The facts In connection with the labor, trouble among the Lancashire mills are that this concerns only the mills In the north and northeastern section of the Lancashire county. In the whole county there are about 2,000 mills. Not only have 160,000 weavers of cotton yam been locked out In these mills In the north and northeastern septlon, nut an equal number of spinners of yarn have been put on half-time by these mills, and tho prospects are the latter will be compelled to stop work entirely unless the difficulty between the weavers and the manufacturers Is settled within the next fortnight. The mills In other sections of Lancashire and In Manches ter are not affected by this trouble. But If the present dispute really devel ops Into a question of maintaining an open shop for yarn spinners as well as weavers In all the mills In the Lancashire county and In Manchester district. It would become an extremely serious matter, and might Involve accordingly upward of 600.000 mill hands." Week’* range In future*: NEW YORK. High. 9.26 8.82 8.06: Low. 8.76 8.62 8.86 doling Bid. Last Week 9.13 8.76 8.91 Last Yea>, 9.10 h 8.95 9.09 9.02 15.16 9.22 9.05 9.20 9.11 1648 *. 9.25 9.09 9.34 9.11 14.88 9.20 9.18 9.29 9.15 9.36 9.1 T 9.36 9.23 1843 NEW ORLEANS, i futures: Closing Bid. List 1 Last High. Low. Week. Year. 9.19 9.05 9.07 9.02 8.84 ' 9.oi • 8.90 1L93 9.-0 8.95 9.00 9.00 16.11 9.22 9.08 9.21 9.11 16.88 9.37 9.18 9.36 9.23 16.68 9.33 9.15 9.32 9.19 13.41 December ■ January .. March .... May July August ... September October .. December ......... January J.... Marcn f,.... May July October SPOT COTTON. While the contract market hSk shown a disposition to advance, spot at the principal center* closed the week at a slight decline. Comparisons follow: This Last Last Week. Week. Ye*r. Liverpool ••«...•• 5.01 5.05 8.97 New York «... 9-85 9.50 15.00 New Orleans 9 1-16 9.78 14 15-16 WEEK-END STATISTICS. Movement Into sight: For the week Since September 1 ' World's visible supply: Of which American Other kinds Total all kinds Of the world's visible supply there held In— Great Britain and continental Europe Egypt ' India United States World's spinners' taking*: For the week * Since September 1 Distributed as follow*: Northern mills and Canada • 1.091,000 Southern spinners 1,037,000 Foreign spinner* 3,303,000 Foreign exports: For the week Since September 1.. 1911. 1910. 1909. 473,499 465,774 265,465 9,416,328 8.328,343 7,055,465 4.784.647 4,286.797 3.900.916 781,000 1,013.000 1,069,000 5,565,547 6,298,979 4,969,316 2,653,000 2,715,000 2,674,000 237,000 292,000 239.000 266,000 333,000 504.000 2,510,000 1,959,000 1,562.000 304.000 279,000 242,000 6,431,000 4,724,000 4,627,000 1.091,000 1,257,000 1,143,000 1,0.77,000 963.000 936,000 3,303,000 2,604,000 2,548,000 306111 279,054 5.066,091 4,268,571 The new companies entered the service in the order named: The Grady Cadets, the Fulton Blues, the Marist Rifles, the Ful ton Fusiliers and the Atlanta German-American Rifles, With the coming of the new troops will come an enhanced interest in the military affairs of the city. Wisely directed, it can' result in nothing other than greatly increased efficiency, plac ing Atlanta in the front rank of cities noted for their splendid military organizations, and af fording an additional guaranty of the safety of the city and state and the maintenance' of good order therein. The new military enthusiasm should be fostered in every way possible. The state should look more to the equipment and training of the guardsmen and Atlanta and Fulton county, so far as the Fifth regiment is con cerned. should provide it en larged quarters at the Audito rium-Armory. Possessing an entire regiment, Atlanta should not fail to make the most of it. The Scientists Will Gather in Atlanta. The three or four thousand members making up the Ameri can Association For the Advance ment of Science have selected Atlanta for their meeting place in 1913. This is one of the really big national gatherings, and in se curing it Atlanta has again dem onstrated its pre-eminence as the convention city of the South city as hospitable as it is busy. Science nowadays is the scout, From The Technical World Magaxlne. qsven thru this Instrument, as well a* Giant mountain telescopes have been (the hotel on the Faulhorn, 60 mile* erected during I he last season or two at u'uay, and, In very fins weather, the th- terminul* uf the various mountain , small trigonometrical signal Itself. At railroad* in Switzerland. | the Rigl they have an instrument and In fact, the mountain railroad and the !'!' ru ‘ , thc , c , re ™ H "f*J n ■>» pQr , t * ° f telescope now go hand In hand. Thei ,l,e Alpine chain, and also one of the telescopes an- no ordinary Instruments, church-clocks In the Schalthausen, can an«! were specialty d*»»iKned f« r their • plainly teon. famous optl- al di m of Dari, The innovation has been welcomed -in titled with tho 1 *’>' sightseers who And the better view Jena glaso. which Is perfectly j *>f distant, Inaccessible part* of the transparent, and. therefore, givpa a mountains enchanting. To watch the clear image. The Instruments may he! parties who are ascending peaks Is be- dlvlded Into two classes—monocular omlng a popular pastime, figures of and binocular— that Is, those thru rnen and women climbing distant Which the observation Is mad. with «"H5! VOTERS OF TEXAS ARE FOR WILSON General Sentiment of the Coun- Declared To^Be Favor able to Princetonian. try The Washington correspondent of Tho Houston Chronicle send* the fol lowing to his papert Men who come here from the Lone Star State, and who care little or/noth- Ing for machine politics, say without hesitation that Wtfedrow Wilson Is the choice of the vast majority of the Texas electors. What I* true of Texas Is also true of all the states on which any reasonable line on popular sentiment can be obtained. To speak of near-by states. Virginia and Maryland, Dela ware and New Jersey, are, from the best Information obtainable, Irrevocably fixed In their favorable regard for the same candidate: In the West his pop ularity Is at white heat, and all who hall from the Inter-mountain and Pa cific coast states report here that Wil son Is the only Invincible candidate his parly possesses. The Business Doctor Hoa Futhenron TBADB MARK REGIJTMRBD Daily Health Chat ST AN ATLANTA PHYSICIAN. FINGER NAILS. It requires about six months t6r a Anger nail to grow out Its full length; in other words, we clip away piecemeal about two “ills a year on each Anger—twenty nails , itogether. If one Should refrain from cutting the nalls_for A period of ten years Jjr Indi cates an acute Illness of recent .occur rence, and it la possible to estimate roughly from the position of the groove how much time has elapsed since the Illness. Thus, a groove located about midway the nail would indicate a severe illness occurring two or three months previously. . , Few persons perhaps know that it is often possible to read the pulse in the Anger nails. This can be done by press ing slightly upon the tip of the nail, causing it to turn white at the edges by pressing out the blood, and then care fully watching the wave of redness which passes into tns blanched area with each beat of the pulse. In certain disease, anemia, for example, this "capillary pulse” is quite distinct. A healthy pernon, by pressing the hall of the Anger Armly upon a table, can squeeze out much of the blood from the bed of the nail, causing the nail to turn white in the outer part. When, by such iressure, the entire nail turns white, .jowever, we have an indication of im poverished blood demanding Immediate attention. Is some diseases the Anger nails stop w owing. Among these are acute infantile paralysis, and the condition of paralysis of one entire side of the body, called hemlplaegia. In organic heart disease and some forms of lung trouble, such is chronic bronchitis, there is a peculiar bulging of the ends “ - • - • he nails and Is everywhere preaching the libera- tion of China from Manchu op pression. He now comes bnek from exile in tri'.mph to lead the 0 " n “‘ l e “ y «“*”iy^ ',Lre“th?U whic'h U.U I looking .hn, these teloscepa*. a. they new-horn republic n thc struggleIms.-uS two ! ,nl1 upward thru difficulties and dan- to establish its birthright. The binocular Instrument, are con-**"; Thl,, furn,ahe ■ mUCh en ' erta ' n ' Tho United States of Chinn n I Irlvances astonishing In their effect. It 1 tm umim mates, oi mini, known that our powers of per- phrflHO without meaning a few I .peettve rapidly decrease as tho dle- vears ago, now witnesses its first Itance from the object Increases. The i a. t . ... .i reason of this is that the facial angle letters being written on the pages at w j,lch objects appear deereases with of history. the distance, and eventually becomes ■o slight that we lose all power of estl- mating It. We can. however, enlarge, .... , this angle by approaching the object or He are told that tho state prohtbt- by bringing theiobject apparently near- 1 tlon laws must all be abandoned be er to us or ultimately by Increasing tho rause the liquor dealers will not obey LaFollette is Insuring thru Ohio. He may not be able to dine aa often and as extensively as Taft, but hla speeches evoke much more applause. King George. While hunting In an Indian Jungle, wa* attacked by a tiger. Thc Incident no doubt was a great re lief to the king from the exesperatlng monotony of the eerie* of coronation ceremonies he hae undergone. The pure-food authorities of Kansas. It Is said, will draw up a legal recipe for hash. Even If Kansas hasn't found out what's the matter with Itself. It le at least determined to know what’e the matter with Ite hash. Prohibition Snapshots By KBV. A. C. WARD distance between the eyes, It te well nigh Incredible what one can eee thru these giant glasses. Ob jects 40, 60 arid 60 mile* away can be detected thru the clear atmohepere of Switzerland with comparative eaee. There Is a teleerope on the Uetllberg, close to Zurich, thru which on a clear day It le possible to detect the stone signal one on of the peaks of the Dla- bleret*. near Lausanne, almost at the other end of Swltxerland, being a dis tance of 66 miles. This signal Is only about four feet high. Climbers on th* Tltll*. 40 miles distent, can easily be UNCLE WALT * ’philosopher The good Queen Bess in great distress beheld a puddle in her way. She stopped and sighed. “Great Scott!” she cried, “I'll get all splashed with mud and clay!” AN OLD STORY And then a bloke took off his cloak and threw it at his sovereign’s feet; and so she trod across dry Rhod, and went kerwhooping down the street. That valiant knight, who saw her plight and acted Johnnie on the spot, by that small game won lasting fame, mid is embalm ed in poet’s rot. A thousand jays went on their ways that morning, doing useful things; they mowed their gruss like men —alas, no poet of their labor sings! They pushed their plows and milked their cows, and dug their wells and planted trees, no lyre is hit. none ‘brows a fit, embalming laborers like these. They had their day and passed sway, and went to sleep in un known graves. The poet writes of eheap john knights, and o’er some foolish action raves It’s still the same; we hand out fame and boodle to thc grand stand guys; and toilers, poor, un sung, obscure, must cough up when they'd advertise. WALT MASON. Copyright, 1911, by Georg* Matthew Adams. them. No matter what law may be passed to regulate the liquor traffic the liquor men will never obey or respect them. If sobriety Is good for the Individual It Is also good for the whole communi ty. We can never haVe a sober coun try with open saloons doing business along the main streets of our land. The annual expenditures for alco holic beverages in tile United States Is a sum sufficient to pay the premiums upon life Insurance of $49,000 for every white man dying In this country. Mayor J. C. Collier, of Barnesvllle, Ga, Is making a fine record. Whisky dives are being broken up and law breakers of every type are said to be on the run In that city. The mayor warns all offender* that a second ap pearance before him will mean the full penalty the law allows. The old cry that prohibition Is a farce and that tt does not prohibit Is out of date. There Is not a single law on the statute books that is not violat ed, nor Is there one law against any crime that is absolutely prohibitive of that crime. The prohibition movements during the past three years has reduced to'a remarkable degree the consumption of Intoxicating liquors throughout the United States. United States Senator Isaac Stephen son's expense for cigar* snd beer at the primaries In 1908 are said to have been over 330,000. The final total of hla campaign expense* ran up to $107,- 793. By i _ _ of Michigan It has city can limit the number of saloons to less than one to each 500 of the popula tion, If It chooses to do so. which Is „... . , termed ‘‘clubbed flngeii." Unfortunately one can not tell a lady's age by her nails, however much he may learn of her fastidiousness from these delicate homologues of the tiger’s claws, ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS; MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS Washington, Deo. 30.—The following orders have been lskued: Army Orders. Major E. E. Persons, medical corps, to army field service and hospital school, Tort Leavenworth. Lieutenant Colonel ft. P. Davie, ar tillery corps, dealled general staff corps. The following changes In the corps of engineers are announced: Major L. Brown, to Fort Leavenworth to com mand Second battalion of engineers; Captains A. Williams and L. H. Adams, to Fort Leavenworth for duty with Second battalion; First Lieutenant J. N. Hodges, from Third battalion to Wheeling, W. Vn. Becond Lieutenant A. H. McNabb, Sixth field artillery, to home .prepara tory to retirement. Naval Orders. Commander R. B. Belknap, to bu reau of navigation. Lieutenant Commander D. W. Wurtz- burg, from the South Dakota, Febru ary 15, to duty aid, staff commander- tn-chlcf Asiatic fleet. Lieutenant Commander O. G. Mur- On, from the North Dakota to home and wait orders. a Lieutenant Commander A. G. Kava- naugh, from the Mississippi to- the Louisiana. Movements of Naval Vessels. Arrived—Burrows, Monaghan and Patterson, at Bradford, R. 1.; Perkins and Sterrett, at Hampton Roads. Balled—Birmingham, from Newport for Hnmpton Roads; Arethusa, from i Charleston to Port Arthur, Texas: I Rowan, from Mare Island for San | Diego; Rhode Island, from BoAton for Hampton Roads; Nathan, from Amoy for Olo rano. I Growth and Progress x of the New South + — - Baltimore, Dee. 30 Among the many Southern Industrial and other developmental enterprise! reported In thla week's Issue of The Manufac turing Record are the following: Shellmound Plantation Company, Islington. Mias., was Incorporated with 81.000.000 capital atock to de velop 20.000 acre* of Leflore county lands; plans Include cultivating cot ton. erecting cotton gins, building warehouse*, etc. wr — t&O.OOO capital stock' recultivate land, especially In cotton; plans for ■ • future Include erection of cotton mill. - Llano Land St Irrigation Co.. San Antonio, Tex., was Incorporated with 8426,000 capital stock to develop land by irrigation. D. If Greene, Vinegar Bend, Ala., plans building 3800,two plant to ex tract chemicals, etc., from stump* and fallen timber. Virginia Apple Company, Waynes boro. V*., was organised with 8900,- 000 capital stock to develop commer cial apple orchard. Acadian Coal St Lumber Co.. Wheeling. W. Va.. was Incorporated with 1100.000 capital stock to de velop coal and timber land. Ivanhoe Manufacturing Company. Bmlthfield. N. C„ will add 8,800 eptn- dies and accompanying machinery. Sugar Factors Company. Ltd., nf Hawaii, purchased 25 acre* or land of Patapeco river, near Baltimore, as - - alt* for sugar refiner)': detail* of lat- ■'You have a misunderstanding of the fundamentals of business,'' said the Business Doctor to the young merchant. "You say that the secret of successful merchandising Is the bargain counter and the bargain sale This Is true'to an extent. There is no one thing which will draw so much business to a store as real bargains, real chances to get 31 worth of mer chandise for 75 cents. But never for a moment must you get the idea In your head that any merchant can make a lasting success on fake bargains. They must be bonafide bargains, where the real value is not overstated In the advertisement, or you will find that the advertising, will soon cease to lure. "Now, If you will tell me or any other man (how a merchant can offer real bargains day after day without losing money on the article offered for sale you will confer a favor. To be a real bargain, merchandise must be sold at a less price than your competitors can buy It for. In other words, you mu3t lose money. How can you go on losing money day after day and yet make a success? It can not be done. In other words, the bargain sale, the special marked-down sale and such like affairs, are overdone. "A man can succeed on straightforward, legitimate advertising. He of course, will have his special sale, from time to time, of out-of-season goods, or goods that are not moving fast, but In my opinion It Is better business to have these sales for the benefit they do the stock, rather than for the benefit they are to the cash drawer. "One of the biggest haberdashers In the country made the statement two years ago that In his opinion the day of the bargain sale was over In his opinion It had been Imitated and overdone, till the public no longer had confidence In that sort of advertising, and he proposed to quit it, and he did from that time forth. From that time on hie advertising cessed to tell of what wonderful 325 suits he was selling for 120, and began to tell of what wonderful suite he was selling for 325; of what splendid weaves the goode was: of how well they were made, of what splendid style they were cut In, and from that day he has kept consistently at that policy, it is now his contention that the difference in the two prlpes originally used and the regular price used today pays all hi* advertising bills, and within a month he has shown me his books demonstrating that he has done more business In the last year than in any other year of his business existence, and In addition to that his net profit has been 6 per cent greater on every dollar's worth of business done. "There Is little doubt that the constant reiteration of the catch lines. ‘Great Bargains' and 'Special Sale,' In the advertising columns of the dallv papers has palled upon the public. If the advertising was all truthful, the only conclusion at which one could logically arrive would be that dire dls- ' aster was imminent In the entire retail district. After this advertising has continued day after day and season after season, the public get so thev do not believe apy of it. Some must be untrue, and as they have neither the time nor Incllnatlon'to separate the false from the true, they believe none of It. and so the man who advertises quality and service, with only an occasional bargain sale, gets the credit of being the more truthful advertiser, and his announcements are credited, where the persistent advertiser of bar gain* attract* little attention. "That a business can and does succeed with strictly legitimate adver tising can be easily demonstrated by any. man who cares to do so. Think over for yourself the Jeweler In your own city whj has established In your mind a reputation for absolute reliability, and the chances are that you will find he Is a man whose ads. are not of the bargain type, but of the oppo site.” - c : ebb. Hey 1200,000 company to build Milton Cotton Milts Company, Ok lahoma City, was Incorporated with 3250.000 capital atock to build mill. ■ . w. 8. Gray Cotton Mllla. Woodruff, 8. C., awarded contract for 2.400 ad- • • dltlonal aptndlea and other machin ery. By MARY L. M’LENDON. Thc Arkansas W. C. T. U. recently held Its thirty-third annual convention In Fine Bluff, which has twenty open saloons. Mrs. Katherine Lent Steven son. of Boston, was the convention speaker and preached the sermon on Sunday. Rev. Mr. Cline, a minister of the Christian church, gave a 30 min utes speech at an evening session on "The Ballot For Women." At the close he said that he spoke In behalf of his wife and daughters. Mrs. Minnie U Rutherford, whom many of The Geor gian’s readers will remember as a dele gate to the Southern conference In the Interest of women and children, which met In the state capttol last April, was another speaker In the Interest of pro tecting the children. She displayed pictures on a canvas which Indicated conditions under which children labor and suffer In the Southern states. Mrs, Lula A. Markwell was re-elected presl dent of the Arkansas W. C, T. U. The W. C. T. U'e. of Mississippi are up In arms at the outrageous miscar riage of Justice In the case of one poor girl In Mississippi who, because of her ago (fifteen years) was beyond the power of the law to protect from the charge of loss of virtue. They propose "to batter at the doors of legtslattva halls until the law Is framed on a just basis for helpless youth and childhood." Mrs. Harriet B. Kells, the state presi dent, will lead In the movement to se cure a raise In the age of consent from twelve to eighteen year* for Missis sippi's girls. In Georgia and In Hawaii the age of conaent Is ten years. In Tennessee It is 21 years, \Vhy this discrepancy In the different states or the Union? The wife of the governor of Iowa, Mrs. B. F. Carroll, recently addressed large audiences In the churches of Sioux City on "Purity," and also visited the schools and Mornlngdale college, where she was greeted by appreciative audiences, She Is a W. C. T. U. wom an, and, because of her position, she can gain entrance where other speakers are refused. When will women In high positions realise their responsibilities as this woman has done? A certain physician living In Atlanta, some years ago advertised a whisky as a sovereign cure for tuberculosis. The Union Signal, quoting from Dr. Adolphus Knapf, says: "That alcohol ism la one of the greatest direct and Indirect causes that prepare the field for tubercle baccilll is now generally conceded, not only by all physicians and. sanitarians, but by alt sociologists who have studied the subject. It Is not only a phthlslogenettc disease In life, but, according to statistics care fully kept tn European hospitals for children, In more than 60 per cent of cases either father or mother, or bollg were alcoholics." The late eminent DE Bronardel, of France, aald: "Alcohol Is In effect one of the most powerful fac tors in the production of tuberculosis.” It Is estimated that there are about 160,000 Insane persons In this country today and on the very conservative es timate made by eminent physicians of one In four they reached the concluslun that we have 40,000 caaes of Insanity from alcoholism. Dr. Charles B. Johnson concludes with these words: "Why do we make unceasing war on tuberculosis that harms only the body, while drink is left free to not only prey on man’s body, but likewise on hts home, his family, bis property, his mind, his* character, Mrs. Harriet-B. Kelts, president of the Mississippi W. C. T. U., was ap pointed by the governor of that great state as a delegate to the AmertAtn Anti-Saloon league, which held Its bi ennial convention In the First Presby terian church In Washington. D. C. Mrs. ■ Howard M. Hogue, president of the Virginia W. C. T. U.; Mrs. Emma S. Shelton, president of the Columbia W. C. T. U., and Mrs. Margaret Dye 1 Ellis, national W. C. T. U. superintend, ent of legislation and petition, were also appointed delegatee to that great convention and asatsted In formulating the wonderful resolutions adopted by that body to prevent. If possible, the Invasion of the "dry” territory by the liquor people of this nation. Thc po sition of those temperance women was quite different from that of the women sent as delegates to a temperance mee>.. lng In a New York city, when Susan B. Anthony arose to speak to a motion and was requosted by the chairman—a preacher—to take her seat, and adding: "The sisters are not expected to apeak, but to listen and learn.” Then Susan B. forthwith proceeded to organize a Woman’s Temperance society, a thins that had never beert heard of before. Mrs. Margaret Dye Ellis was selected one of the committee of ten to decldt on the beet form of the bill to be intro duced In congress to secure adequate Interstate commerce leglalatlon. And thus do the women "evolute" and some day there may be a woman president of the United State* Who knows? At an election In Warren county Ohio, which remains In the dry ’Is: by s majority of 121, women patrolled the alley* alt day to prevent possible vote selling. A W. C. T. U. woman called the chief by phone to tell him of suspicious movements across tho street from h°r home. Sho said she wa* sure there was a blind tiger there, and sure enough there was one, and he, she or It was caught with the goods and carted to the police station. Kipling said: "The female of the species Is more deadly than the male." Men seem to he afraid or don't want to see prohibition pro hibit. The W. C. T. U’s. of Atlanta wish they could Influence council to grant Judge Broyles the power to send all violators of the state-wide prohibition law to the stockade and be forced to earn their bread by the sweat of their browa for twelve long months. That Is the only way to make them law-abiding citizens. A. K. Hawkes Go. OPTICIANS A thorough, com plete examination of your eyes by compe tent opticians and the correct lenses fitted in the latest spectacle and eyeglass mountings, at reasonable prices. Don’t let those stub born headaches worry you any longer. 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