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16 THE ATLANTIAN (Bet One Uienn^’s Christmas Souvenir Useful: Ornamental to Oea and (Toffee "purchasers Saturday ~Dec. 23r6 19U One ~Da? Oitl? (T* "3D* DftertrtY (To* Oeas, (Toffees, Sugars, 3\ice 82 ^l)llel)all Street soino boiling springs. As the salmon climb up the river they gradually get accilimated to the heat of the water and don’t mind it. In fact, when we fish in the highest reaches of the stream we catch our salmon ready boiled.’ “ ‘ I don’t doubt that,’ said the second Canadian, calmly. ‘Down my way there’s a curious salmon river, too. It rises in some tin mines. As the fish work up they meet the suspended ore in gradually increasing quantities. They get quite mineralised if they keep on upstream, so that, if we fish at the head of the river we catch our salmon ready tinned, and all we have to do is to pack anil shin them to market.’ ” NATURAL HISTORY. A party of young men were camping and to avert annoying questions they made it a rule that the one who asked a question that he could not answer him self had to do the cooking, says the Cleveland Leader. One evening, while sitting around the fire, one of the boys asked: “Why is .t that a ground squirrel never leaves any dirt at the mouth of its burrow?” They all guessed and missed. So he was asked to answer it himself. ‘ ‘ Why, ’ ’ he said, ‘ ‘ because they al ways begin to dig at the other end of the hole.” ‘ ‘ But, ’ ’ one asked, * how does he get to the other end of the hole?” “Well,” was the reply, “that’s your question. ’ ’ A man never really enjoys bachelor hood until he is married. JUST FISH. Commissioner George M. Bowers of the Bureau of Fisheries, said recently in Washington of the black bass that he is sending to South Africa at the request of Col. Roosevelt, according to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat: “These fish will do well, but no mir acles are to be expected of them. Many persons seem to think that our bureau is as miraculous in all its works as— well, as the Canadian salmon. “Two Canadians were boasting. “ ‘Where I come from,’ said the first, ‘ we have a salmon river that rises in W. N. HARKINS, Who has been Re-elected Secre- tary-Treas. Div. 457, O.R.C. CURRENT COMMENT. | The Birmingham News says: “The consumer cares very little how many bit ter words pass between the leaders in Congress in the consideration of the new tariff provided it will result in letting the consumer have a little show in the round up.” The Washington Herald says: “Rev. Len G. Broughton, of Atlanta, in the course of a recent sermon, advised the Georgia Legislature to pass a law ‘ re quiring women to know to how to cook.’ It probably would be as ineffective as a statute requiring Rev. Len G. Broughton to know how to preach.” The New York Tribune says: “The Georgia Legislature has been asked to pass a law requiring cooking and house- , keeping to be taught in the public schools. Good cooks, it is argued, make a contented and enduring commonwealth. The Empire State of the South will lay a firm foundation for greatness if its schools take no turning out domestic economists who owe their accomplish ments to scientific training as well as to nature and inheritance.” The Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.) says: “Too many of its victims regard the present tariff system as an abstruse instrument when it is merely a simple and understandable letter of marque granting to a certain class certain rights to pillage. To this failure property to analyzo it is due the entrenched and seemingly impregnable position of the system. The retailers are not responsible for the high prices of the necessities of life. Moreover they are not, as a class, getting any considerable part of the profits upon products those prices rep resent. Remorseless greed is the true explanation, but that remorseless greed is found higher up. ’ ’ APODICTIC. “I am determined to go on a vaca tion! ” Whittier looked almost fierce as ho spoke. Cleverton regarded him with a quizzical look, says Lippincott’s. ‘ ‘ You have a comfortable home ? ” he askeu. ‘ ‘ Splendid. Nothing could be better. ’ ’ “Ann a loving wife?” ‘ ‘ None more so. Studies to please all the time. Never obtrudes herself and is silent when ..esirable. ” “Yon are in good physical condition?” ‘ ‘ Very. Never felt better. ’ ’ “No trouble of any sort, no hidden worry that yon want to get away from?” ‘ ‘ None whatever. Everything is se rene. ’ ’ “What, then, is the reason for your going?” Whittier smiled. ‘ ‘ illy dear boy, ’ ’ he replied, ‘ don't you know that when everything is run ning smoothly ,when there is absolutely no cause for complaint, when you simply couldn't improve on the present condi tions if you tried—don’t you understand that then the pure and unadulterated ning smoothly, when there is absolutely demands that something be done to up set the harmony of things? That’s why I am going on a vacation. I’m looking for trouble! ’ ’ SAMUEL E. SMITH, President Guarantee Trust & Banking Co.—A Man Who Has Made Good in the Business.