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12 THE ATLANTIAN Carry Your Account With The Fourth National You will find that the service rendered the patrons of this institution is of a high order. No detail of the hank ing matters you may entrust to us is considered too insig nificant for close and courteous attention. Accounts of individuals, as well as those of firms and corporations, are solicited. We have a Department for Savings in which we pay interest, compounded semi-annually. We have a Department Exclusively for women, in. charge of a woman teller, and most conveniently arranged to facilitate the transaction of business. CAPITAL $600,000.00 SURPLUS AND PROFITS 825,000.00 FOURTH - NATIONAL-BANK. not be a candidate for re-appointment. He retired with the grateful apprecia tion of the public for the services ren dered and the expressed regret on the part of the many whose favor he had won. After his .retirement from the Com mission, he was frequently urged to become a candidate for the governor ship of the State. He gave the matter serious consideration, with an ex pressed partial purpose of making the race. After further consideration he finally declined in favor of Hoke Smith, who advocated views on public questions in harmony with his own. Governor Smith offered him a place on the Railroad Commission, which he declined. Mr. Brown is a forceful speaker. He is always calm and dignified in bear ing, and succinct, clear and logical in statement. His strong common sense will always attract the attention of the people he addresses, and his deep convictions and evident sincerity of purpose largely determine contentions in his favor. During the time of his public service, he addressed the peo ple upon many public questions and his views have largely shaped the policy of the State upon many lines. His most notable address among the many that have attracted the atten tion of the people was delivered be fore the Southern Cotton Association upon its organization in New Orleans, February, 1906. This address was included in the following words: ‘‘The great need of this agricultural country is markets for her products. We note with pleasure that the cotton question i3 interesting some of our representa tives in Congress. If pardonable, I would suggest a great, broad field for the use of their talents. Let partisan ship rest for a season, give statesman ship a chance; let Republicans and Democrats join hands in the effort to find new and broader fields for the products of our fields. The energies of the West and the South are hamp ered for the want of markets. The South has the land and the labor to produce fifteen million bales of cot ton, whenever the price will warrant it The capacity of the food-producing West has not been tested. “The time for us to act has come. Today we are in better condition to act than at any time since the civil strife. We have emerged, neck deep, from the ashes of our poverty, but today we stand upon a plane of abso- lue independence, if we will only be true to ourselves and the resources at our command. “Let us organize, unawed by threats of spinners to close down, unaffected by advice of false prophets, undis mayed by past failures. Let us or ganize our forces, remembering that in unity there is concord and strength —that in division there is discord and defeat.” Mr. Brown was married to Miss Annie Righton Miller, in May, 1880. To this union five children have been born. Two are now living. Mr. Brown has always been a Demo crat. He is a prominent member of the Baptist church an demember of the Board of Trustees of Mercer Uni versity. His favorite exercise is rid ing horseback over his extensive fields. To the young he commends: "Hon est methods; industrious habits; tem perance in all things, and total ab stinence from strong drink.” THE VALUE OF ENEMIES. Reginald Wright Kauffman. A man may be known by the com pany that he keeps, but he is certain ly proved by the company that he repels. The former he may smetimes deceive, but the latter almost never. All the world over, the coward is the enemy of all the brave, the liar of all the true; all the world over there is no better proof of a man’s virtue than that he should be persecuted by a loose woman, no better evidence of a woman’s worth than that she should be slandered by a libertine. When I see a man hated by a fool, I know that he is wise; when I hear him disparaged by a braggart, I know that he is honest. Among my own ene mies I am fortunate enough to have one that is evil, one that is a boaster, one that is stupid, and two that are all three. Of the first two I do not know which has helped more my good name, but I do know that no one alive has helped my good name so much as the last two. Do not, then, waste your time upon revenge. I once knew a man with a wife, child, and friend. First privately and then publicly, the friend took the wife; the wife kidnaped the child. The man, after he had regained his senses, allowed himself to be blamed and cheated rather than hurt the char acters of the runaways, who, of course hated him all the more cordially there for. But what happened? The man found himself able to win the race of life because he was no longer hampered by a woman unworthy of him; the child, unharmed, grew up to doubt her mother and hate her stepfather; and the wife and the friend, because they knew these things to be so, became mere drunken brawlers. Revenge is absurd. If you try to brush aside the filth you will only soil your own hands. If it attacks you, it will only bring itself into comparison with you and thereby show the world just how much dirt it is. Choose your friends with care, but select your enemies with caution. Your friends will be a personal help to you; but out in the world where, unknown to you, he goes about revil ing you, a well selected enemy is your best asset—The Cosmopolitan. IN A TUMBLER, ETC. (From the Topeka State Journal.) At this stage of the game ice is about the only thing that is really what It is cracked up to be. THE SILENT VICTIM. (From the St. Paul Pioneer Press,) Every country except Morocco is having something to say about the war in Morocco. BRIFF FILED BY BERNARD SUTTLER Continued from page 8 North Georgia in the hands of a power trust for an hundred years to come. VI. The talk of possible competition is a pleasing figment of the imagina tion, devised as a sugar-coating to the pill. VII. Including the Georgia Railway and Electric Company, the actual cap italization runs to seventy-seven mil lions. VIII. With one foot of this giant ;orporation in Georgia, and one in South Carolina, it is only a question of time when the Interstate Commis sion will be appealed to and the Geor gia Commission ruled out. IX. The refusal of the Commission to authorize this issue will result in the disintegration of this merger, and a resolving of it into its original com ponent parts—A THING REALLY TO BE DESIRED. X. No great public necessity has arisen calling for a donation, by the people, of thirty-one and a half millions of dollars to the foreign financiers and the promoters of this merger. XI. Thirty years of observation in the United States, Central and South America, have convinced me that any so-called development brought about by FOREIGN MONEY does not result in material health to the local people. XII. It is absolutely clear that, but for the lease of the Georgia Railway and Electric Company, this Company could not stand. The interest charges during the period of construction and developing business would bring a receivership in five years. XIII. There is no crying demand for the proposed development, our manu facturing interests are already in ex cess of our needs, and our farms are showing the result of the one-sided de velopment, nor is the country suffering for interurban lines. In fact, no neces sity exists for INCREASING the fixed charges on the people. XIV. It is also clear that these peo ple have devised this scheme to save themselves and unload on the public their hastily devised and over-capital ized separate schemes. XV. In the name of the people, who will have to foot the bills, I protest against the granting of any authority whatever to this Company to carry out its schemes of spoliation of the people. (From the Washington Star.) “I want to do something that will cause me to be talked about,” said the ambitious man. “That’s easily arranged,” answered his wife. “Merely move into a strange neighborhood.” (From Tit-Bits.) Salesman. You’ll find these good- wearing socks, sir. Customer. Rather loud, aren’t they? Salesman. Yes, sir; but that keeps the feet from going to sleep.