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8 The Semi-Weekly Journal. Entered at tt« Atlca a ro«tntf!re «» M«H Mat. tar «C the Secocd Clara. JAMES R. GRAY, Editor and General Manager. SUBSCRIPTION PRICK. Twelre wnth* I «W amtire three f The gewl-Wrekly Jeanial . ►"‘“STLon’ IKSSZ *=«> Frtuaj. and la mailed by the abort eat roots* toe early delivery- ld F It caatahre sew* from »U <►»« <*• **~’ braarht 'hr eoeeral ieaaed wire* tn.a oar attire. Uhaa a atatt of 4tex.a«ttles*i trtth atraag uevarUneaU o» special It lac to oa home aau the Una. Ageste wanted at every poatofflee. Überai toaucisMoe allowed. Unit It tree. f The only traveling representative* we have L . are J. A Bryaa. B. F. Bolton. C. < Coyle end M. 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Too many handled, probably. « ; "Big gain in sale of fertiliser tags." ’ Another prospertir sign heard from. Young man. don’t waste your time on • Latin and Greek. Learn aviation. I Dispatches say the president is taking on weight. What! No simple diet yet? , I America has won the balloon cup. There are few left for her to win now. If prasiAent Taft comes to north Geor gia. he'U get the mountain air and dew. Foor old Spain is still having her trou ‘ bles with the Moors. Only her bull fights remain. The Indianapolis News libel suit Is set for next Monday. "What suit is that?" I you ark. Mr. Taft Is roughing It In the Sierras. 1 By roughing it is meant living on a sim ple diet. W. CL T. U. is to wage war on "real” beer. National issue is thus localised. What ts beer? Comer and Jones are at It again in Ala bama. Still, the state needs some kind of excitement now. Senator Aldrich seems to be a prophet Without honor among the Democrats of hi* own state. Complaint is made that there are not enough West Point officers to go round. ■ Call on the militia. Headline suggests that a pole-cat hasn’t nine lives. No need. The one it has is sufficiently protected. Ths county fair is stilt interesting even without the Wright brothers and the Cler mont and Half Moon. 1901 Is a year of record-breaking, of the Kth of genius, and marks the decided terment of the world. Automobiles are being used for every thing. Who knows but in time they'll deliver the week’s wash? A Chicago court has ruled that a man has the right to eject his moth er-In-law. probably so; but has he the might? It is reported that Bryan’s daughter is a candidate for congress Here's hoping she won't have to run as often as her father. “Fifty miles of stage riding for Presi dent Taft." Seems hard on the president, but consider the coach, with the preai dent's Increased weight. The whole staff of Georgia colonels is coming to Atlanta. We mean the colo nels who a-e officially so. not the 100.0 QC K * or so who are not. Woman in divorce suit alleges her hue bans tried to throw a red-hot stove on her ' and burned her bonnet. Laxter would cer tainly constitute cruel treatment. How the country does miss the Roose velt verdict on certain sttuationa now * teteresting it. How be would use his I stick on Ballinger and the other reaction aries upon whom President Taft smiles so pleasantly. The press of the country is beginning to criticise the president The general crit icism is that Mr Taft Is honest, but too easily led by powerful men. too willing to concede a point on the gentleman’s belief that the other party to the agree ment will make a gentleman's concession tn turn. The gentlemanly obligation, however is generally one-sided, and ths gentleman ends by being Imposed on. PEARY’S PAINFUL SILENCE. What on earth has become of those proofs which Commander Peary was eoing to present to an impatient world, proving be yond all peradventure that his rival had never been to the north pole, and that he. the doughty commander, was the only white Tnan who Lad ever been there? While the irreverent paragraph ffs are declaring that from all the evidence even Peary has not shown himself to be “so blamed white,” and while Dr. Cook, with becoming modesty and self-re straint. is touring the country, telling the people in a graphic and convincing manner of his ex periences in seeking the pole, the Peary person still mopes ana fumes on the coast of Maine, con stantly threatening, but never performing. THE CONDITION OF THE TREASURY. In another column, we print the report of Alonzo Richardson & Co., the certified public accountants, who were employed by Governor Brown to investigate and report the condition of the state treasury. From a superficial examination of this report, it appears that the accountant has discharged his duty faithfully and honestly and that the figures gjvcn are accurate in so tar as such figures can be known at this time, and that other figures, given as esti mates. are based upon the personal opinion of the accountant and only given as such. It is easy to believe that these estimates of the accountan. are entirely conservative, and that he has not over stepped the mark of safety in forecasting the probable receipts for the current year. Without stopping at this time to analyze the report or criti cise the conclusions therein reached, we wish to call attention, in passing, to one or two pertinent facts disclosed. The appropriation to the common school fund for 1909 is $250,000 more than for 1908. and for the purchase of the Western and Atlantic railroad terminals at Chattanooga. $69,000. This latter item ha.> not been expended and probably will not be unless the next session of the legislature gives definite direction to it. These two items more than make up the excess of $212,067.22 shown for 1909 over 1908. The report shows that on January 1. 1908, the balance due on the school fund was $932,603.20, that on January 1, 1909, the balance due on the school fund was $726,266.28. In other words, that within the year the state had paid some $200,000 more on its obligation to the school teachers than for the year previous. It is quite apparent from the report that on account of the increased appropriations of the legislature for common schools, and counting the $69,000 appropriated for the purchase of the Western and Atlantic railroad terminals at Chattanooga as an appropriation, although it has not been used, there will be an in creased deficit on the first of January, 1910, over that which existed on the first of January, 1908, but this is hardly surprising in view of the increased appropriation the legislature has given to the eomnioi schools. What the amount of this deficit will be it is impossible at this time to tell. The accountant himself, as previously stated, estimates the revenues for the year, but necessarily such estimates must be pretty largely guess work, since there are no exact figures on which they can be based. It will be noted that this report utterly explodes the state ment given out some weeks ago that on the first of January, 1910,, there would a deficit of something like $2,000,000. It may be that the estimates given by the accountant are approximately correct, and if so, there will be a deficit shown in the condition of the treasury on the first of January. 1910, but certainly then is nothing in the situation to warrant the extrava gant assertions that have been made that the state treasury is virtually in a condition of bankruptcy. Accompanying the report is a statement issued by Governor Brown in which he renews his recommendation that an amend ment to the constitution be adopted so as to permit the issuance of $600,000 of bonds to be used for the payment of school teachers. We cannot discover either the wisdom or the necessity for such an unprecedented measure for paying the ordinary school appropriations of the state. Such a thing has never been done before, and we certainly trust the state will never find it neces sary to resort to such a radical expedient to pay its obligations. It may be necessary in the future to cut down the appro priations of the state, but we cannot imagine that it will ever become necessary to issue bonds to pay current debts. TENNESSEE'S PROHIBITION LAW. The decision of the chancellor in the equitable proceedings brought in Tennessee to determine the right to ship liquors into other states, by which that right was upheld, has revived a num ber of mail-order houses in that state, and at the same time it has piqued public curiosity to know how it comes about that the sale of liquor has been resumed in Tennessee. In the first plaee, Tennessee’s prohibition law is different from the state-wide prohibition laws in Georgia, Alabama and some other states. In Tennessee the provision of the law is that liquor cannot be sold within four miles of any school house, and it is in this sense alone that it is a general law. • It was the exten sion, all over the state of local laws to the same effect. It is of course difficult to find any place in Tennessee, four miles in every direction from a school house, where anyone would wish to sell hquor. There was such an “oasis” on top of a re mote mountain up to a few weeks ago, and this solitary resort did a land-office business until it was destroyed by fire. What is more to the point, the Tennessee law does not prohibit the storing of liquors, as the Georgia law does, and hence the action brought by those who had whisky stored to de termine whether they had a right to sell and ship this whisky outside of the state. The omnibus provisions of the interstate commerce clause of course lies at the root of the decision. One view of the law, in favor of the liquor dealers, was that if it was not unlawful to store liquors in Tennessee, it was not unlawful to ship it out of the state because any act making such a shipment illegal would be in itself unconstitutional, as interfering with interstate com merce. Closely connected with this view was the other that th? sale was not consummated until the goods had been delivered to the purchaser in another state. Those who oppose this construction maintain that the sale is consummated when the goods are delivered to the agent of the common jarripp for transportation out of the state, and they take the position that this consummation of the sale within the state is illegal when made, as it generally is made, within four miles of a school h'>use. The niceties of the law involved may well be confusing, but the point which the general public will most readily understand, but which is most frequently overlooked, is that the Tennessee law is primarily a school law—prohibiting the sale of liquor, or other intoxicants, within four miles of any school house. HEARST TO TEST HIS STRENGTH AGAIN. When William Randolph Hearst announced to crowds of his waiting constituents on Friday morning that he would accept an independent nomination for mayor of New York, provided his asso ciates on the tickets were Republican fusion nominees, he fired the first gun in what bids fair to be one of the most spectacular may oralty races ever run in Gotham. Interest in the outcome is not confined to New York, for the ballot which decides whether or not Hearst shall be put in control of the political destiny of the metropolis will be bound to shed such a glare of light on the candidate’s strength or weakness that his independent party will either be eliminated once for all from the political game or will becomce at last a real power in national affairs. By announcing his candidacy for the mayoralty, Hearst de cided that the time had come for/a “show down,” and the result of that exposure of the exact manner in which his friends and en emies will line up is bound to be watched with the keenest atten tion throughout the entire country. Indications, it is true, point to an overwhelming victory for Justice William J. Gaynor, the Democratic nominee, and this feel ing eliminates to some extent the local excitement attendant upon contests upon which the issue may hang upon the turning of a straw, but the race is just as interesting to the American citizen outside New York as if it were the closest ever run, for it will en able them to “size up” William Randolph Hearst at his true value and estimate his exact strength. If he is bluffing, his bluff will be publicly called, for there is no escaping the “show down” once the game has begun. If. on the other hand, he has a following strons enough to put. him in command of the political situation in New York, the people want to know it; the general public is “from Missouri” nearly all tlie time, and on this occasion the public is awaiting the outcome with complacent interest, for it is going to be “shown.” THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1909. Hon. Thomas G. Lawson T)efends Sanitarium EATONTON, Ga., Oct. 5. 1909. Editor of Atlanta Journal; In a recent editorial on the subject of pellagra, the statement that "it is now reported ouicially that ten cases have been recognized in Atlanta and 225 cases at the state sanitarium’’ is ambigious and misleading; many people Infer from the statement that there are now that many cases of the dread disease in the sanita rium, whereas, in truth, there are only 23. I suppose that you meant to state that from the time the disease first appeared in the sanitarium, under a different name, more than 25 years ago; there have been as many as 225 cases. That state ment is probably true, as very many cases have been brought there and the deaths resulting from it this year amount to 41. Ptease allow me to make a further statement in regard to the sanitarium. Since certain editors seem to have re covered fro tn the hysteria caused by my mention of the state sanitarium It is hoped that the time has come when the truth may have audience. And In ordex that the truth may be known, I state the following proposition. I do so, however, with some misgivings; not as to theif truthfulness, nor as to my ability to maintain them by viiid proof, but as to the readiness of those people whose minds have been poisoned and distempered by falsehoods to believe them. First—Notwithstanding much sensational stuff has been printed about the preva lence of tuberculosis at the sanitarium it can be easily shown that the percent age of deaths from that disease in the institution is lower than it is In a ma jority of such instlutions throughout the United States, and in many of which their equipment for handling the disease is far superior to our own. Compare fox instance, the government hospital for the Insane at Washington, D. C. The per centage of deaths from tuberculosis in that Institution for the year ending June 10, 1908, was 15.4. Compare, also, the asylums for the insane in the sate ot New York. In her institutions the per centage of deaths from tuberculosis in 1908 was 16.66. You will perceive that I take for the comparison the wealthiest government In the world and the wealthiest state In the American union. They make ample pro vision for the care and treatment of the Insane, while Georgia does not. Now, mark you: The percentage of deaths from tuberculosis tn the Georgia sanitarium for the year 1908 was in its white popu lation, 13.6. The death rate among the ne groes should be compared only with the death rate in southern institutions, m there are but few negroes In the asylum'- of the north and west. And so, if I had space. I might extend this comparison to all the institutions for the Insane throughout the United States with the result that Georgia sanitarium would he found, in this respect, in or near the front rank. Second. The majority of the attendants in the Georgia sanitarium eoual to those you will find anywhere in diligence, humanity, gentleness and fidelity to duty and ’n their general character for Integ rity and trustworthiness they do not fall below the standard of character of tho«e who assail them so bltteriy. They are svnerior to manv of their traducers. Mis takes are sometimes unavoidably made in selecting new attendants because their fit ness for the pAritinn 's unknown until they see tried. Tbe Institution cannot go In*o the community and make choice of Its attendant" and enrere them to serve. Third. Cons'derinr the means at its dis posal the Georgia sanitarium Is as wel’ managed as anv Institution of Its kind tn the United States This refers, of course, to the local officers and not to the trustees. To anv man whe‘ rveSers truth to false hood and aensstlAnaVsm these proposi tions can be easljv demonstrated. Verv trvlv,vours. THO 9. G! LAWSON. Trustee What A SoeWM’s View Editas Atlant* ,Tonrn«l: The self-»nnolnte<i X»w VnrV ndtnaters es the Old Pemorr-tlr nsr nrodnaed »n elaborate renort concrrn'nc which the Atncr’eMi nreoe here given hut h penclre of mention—Mee«nae of its Inronee qnence. Of*»n have oth<- r enrotors of tbe old proved Its re*reh”*t"*<on. The pirtv h«« nh«tr»otlona enonrb. the def* clencv Is In the concrete. Tt hne know’odge and crudeness abundant, but no art In performance. For the Hat h»lf eentnry It h«a ah own Incapaci ty for governmental man-vement. when occa aionally nlacod fn power. The Republican party h«a no tr-r'daMon «a tn any of the Tleinocrattc plena or latdera. To cnntfn'irily whin the na tions! democratic party Is merest amusement. INADEQUACY OF EOARDS OF ARBITRATION The award of the board of arbitrators in the tax dispute be tween the Western Union Telegraph company and the state of Georgia, whereby the assessment made by Comptroller General Wright of $950,000 was reduced to $500,000, forcibly illustrates the utter inadequacy of the present method of arriving at an adjudication of differences between the state and corporations doing business in its confines and under its laws. At best the system of appointing arbitrators and an umpire as a last court of resort is but a makeshift. In the present instance the subject matter under dispute was the value of the franchise enjoyed by the Western Union Tele graph company in the state of Georgia. There is no one problem of municipal or state government over which more discussion has been waged than that of franchise values. Originally given away for the very asking, students of political economy have come to realize that the franchise is a valuable asset, to be disposed of sparingly and to be safeguarded in every possible way. The methods of arriving at the value of a franchise have been various and always will be in the very nature of things. In the case of the Western Union, Comptroller General Wright’s method of fixing a valuation is set forth in the dissenting report of C. Mur phey Candler arbitrator for the state, as follows: “The total mileage of the company in 1909 in the United States is 1,367.859. The total mileage in Georgia is 32,368, equal to .023662 per cent of the total. The net income for 1908 in the United States was $5,397,058. This net capitalized at 6 per cent is $89,950,966. Georgia’s proportion of this .023662 per cent is $2,128,509. “Taking this as the ascertained value of the entire property of the company in Georgia and deducting its sworn valuation and re turn of its tangible property in the state, $816,895, leaves $1,311,614, as the value of its franchises exercised in Georgia. This valuation is arrived at by capitalizing actual net earnings. “Taking the company’s capitalization, the outstanding capital stock is $99,817,100, at date of assessment, quoted at 77—mar ket value $ 76,859,167 Outstanding bonds, par value 38,645,000 market value stock, plus bonds at par ....$115,504,167 “Georgia’s proportion of entire mileage is .023662 per cent. Taking this per cent of the above ascertained value of the entire property of the company, including franchises, the value of the property in Georgia is $2,733,059. The tangible property of the company in Georgia is returned under oath at $816,895, which de ducted from the above leaves $1,916,164 as the value of its fran chises exercised in Georgia. “The comptroller general testifies that it was upon these figures, and according to these bases he made his assessment of $950,000.” This plan of arriving at the proportion of the state’s values of whole properties has been sustained by the supreme court of the United States as fair and equitable. And yet, despite the fact that the burden of showing this assessment to be incorrect was on the Western Union and the evidence introduced was hazy and circimstantial, the terms of the award practically cut the assessment in half. What the state of Georgia needs is a board of assessors, with well-defined duties and stipulated salaries, who shall, among other tilings, pass on just such disputes as the fore i going. . 1 ARE TODAY’S JOKES BETTER THAN THE OLD? IT DEPENDS, WRITES LEW DOCKSTADER, KING OF MINSTRELS BL LEW DOCKSTADER. King of American Minstrels. Are the new minstrel jokes better than the old? It's a question. Lots of jokes are good when they’re new. They’d get a laugh today as w’eH as thej- did 50 years ago if you hadn’t happened to have heard them. I would say emphatically that a good joke even if it’s as old as the hills if SAY BUN&STARTER • WHEN AM A NEW □’OAK AGUE 3OA K? A r ‘A i you haven't heard it is better than a poor new one. * “Why does a hen cross the road?” It isn’t true that Noah kicked a slat out of his cradle the first time he heard that one, but it is pietty old. Still if it was new to you, you'd laugh at tt. It's funny how a joke can go down the line for years, be handed around back and forth on the stage, told by traveling men, printed in the comic papers and the Woonsocket Weekly, and yet you never happen to heart It. Then you hear it and think it’s new. Here’s a bunch of them that used to be “screams’ In the late 40s: End man: Dey wah a runaway down town dis mawnin’. A hoss run breakneck down de street, a little dawg sittin’ on his tail. Middleman: What! A little dog sat the horse’s tail? Endman: No, suh, de dawg sit on his own tail. Endman: Me an’ my gal went out Tid in’ last Sunday in a one-seat buggy. She weighs fo’ hunderd poun’s an’ she filled up he w’hole seat. I had ter ride in de whip-socket. Endman: Ah ast my gal if she wanted some peaches an' she et 27. Middleman: Ate 27! She must have liked them. Endman: She said she liked ’em fust rate, but dat de seeds scratched 'er throat. Middleman: Your uncle’s death must have grieved you a great deal. Tambo. Endman: Yes. sur, it grieved de whole fam’ly. Fadder cried and brudder cried, hut I wuss’n any ob ’em. His clothes wouldn’t fit me. Middleman: Can you ♦ 11 me. sir, what Suppose we permit th* old party to vanleb and trv other methods. The New York Sun. the great friend of Mr. Tilden end frequently aid ing t» 1 party since, on September 14 editortally deetga itee It u» tbne “Immutable Democracy. •bowk t that way back to the time of W. R. Morris m. the great Illinois Democratic tariff champ on. the party baa thwarted the tariff re former* by It* congressional votes and division*. We all know what it recently did In that mat ter. Hercules, notwithstanding bls strength, re fused to waste bls strength by striking st the shadow of Medusa. So also President Taft, lu his Chicago Itinerant speech, omitted to dtseua* Detaix-ratlc sayings or doing—that was too easy —but be extendedly assailed tbe Socialists, who, to um his own words, were “growing stronger end stronger.” Thereby hangs a tale of wisdom. The Social ists denounce and mention wrongs and besides propose logical, scientific and patriotic remedies, and hence rhe alarm of onr worthy president. Men of the south, yon have too long been In hopeless defeat. Study socialism, adopt it, and ten years socialism end the Socialist party will annihilate tbe Republican party. Respectfully. WILLIAM O. WILLIAMS. Cincinnati, Ohio. The Gay Deceiver. The hammock, hitched beneath the bluff. Soon tenches to be humble: One moment yon are safe enough, The next you take a tumble. ♦ ffS, '' • ? * 7 '- •■”v' *j LEW DOCKSTADER. is the greatest race in the world? Endman: No. suh. Ah can’t. What is de greates race in de wold? Middleman: The human race, you igno ramus. Middleman: What smells the most in a drug store? Endman, after a moment’s serious thought: It’s yo’ nose. • <i i a— Endman: Yo’ dowg’s got fleas. Middleman: Sir. you are insulting That dog sleeps with me. Endman: Mebby dat’s where he got ’em. Humorous stories were early a feature of minstrelsy, probably from the first performance. Here Is one that I have traced back to 185 T “Two Irishmen were guests at a sum mer hotel. The mosquitoes bit them so hard they summoneu the landlord, who told them to put out their light They did so. and a moment later a lightning bug flew to the window. ‘lt’s no use.' said one of the Irishmen. “They’re com ing now with lanterns.’ ” Sometimes after a joke has been dead about 50 years a minstrel man will pick tt up and spring it as new. Well, it will be new to most everyone by then, and he gets a laugh with It. Which seems to prove that some of these “old boys,” as they call them on the stage, weren’t so bad, after all. It’s a question what is the oldest min strel joke. Nbbody knows. Frank Du mont of my company has made a long study of this, interviewing al! the old timers he meets, but he hasn’t struck the oldest yet. But minstrel shows date back to 1843, so it’s no wonder. OIL CURES INDIGESTION; OLIVE OR COTTON SEED Mr. L. T. Wllkinz, a well-known citi zen of College Park, has a cure for indi gestion that he wants to give to suffer ing humanity through the columns of The Journal. It Is as follows: Take three teaspoonsful of olive oil during each meal. It elive oil is too ex pensive. refined cotton seed oil will do just as well. Drink no water for an hour before or meals. Mr. Wilkins declares that ten years ago he was a physical wreck, caused by dyspepsia. It developed into acute in digestion, and he was given up to die by I several good doctors. “But I am well and healthy and hearty row, and can eat anything I like,” he exclaims with enthusiasm. “How did I 28 YEARS AGO ATLANTIANS SAW FIRST ELECTRIC LIGHTS Thursday evening marked the 28th anni versary of the occasion when Atlanta witnessed its first electric light and many citizens of the city will recall with In terest the exhibition. The first electric lights ever operated in Atlanta were brought here by Sells Broth ers’ eircus and although they were em ployed to light up the show grounds and tents they were considered such an in teresting innovation at the time that the circus gave as much bill poster space to an advertisement of them as it did to the bareback ridars. . The novelty attracted thousands. Many church-going folks who only attend “to see the animals" were afforded a double excuse to take in the performance. They had an opportunity to personally examine the greatest scientific invention of the age. and from all accounts they applied a scrutinizing examination, for several re- They'll Put the Lid on Taft ] „,Wk? _,ug z< z /7/, /z z '\3jßcy ' "A' '• O»w □ iHIIL ‘v’Wl IB llffliMtfr P Mi I r if ,1 ~ -f , <■ V/Xa . ~ U ** MEXICAN SOMBRERO TO BE PRESENTED TO PRESIDENT TAFT. EL PASO, Tex.—lt has remained for Texas to put the lid on President Taft. The lid is a $250 Mexican sombrero, heav ily trimmed with raid and silver strands from Mexican mines. It "will be presented to him by the Ohio society of this city Octooer 16, when Taft is here. The crown of the sombrero is 24 Inches high and the brim 2 1-2 feet in * Here’s one of the old favorites which the old-times speak of affectionately: “Why is a chicken on a fence like * penny. Because its head's on one side and tail’s on the other.” Another joke of rare old age that has made countless thousands laugh is: “What makes more noise than a pig un der a gate? Two pigs.” Yon II be surprised to know that the joke auouT the ben crossing the street isn't very old—only about 25 years. The puni and conundrum were might? popular with eur grandfathers. They screamed over both. Unless a pun to day is an exceptionally clever one, with some definite bearing on the conversa tion, carrying with its some point, an au dience may groan. | A few conundrums go a long way some of them have gone from the Mexi can war down to the Spanish war. In the first minstrel shows the musi cians. vocalists and everybody else on I the stage in the first part joined in the i jokemaking. It was as common forth« cornet player or drummer to engage in conversation with the middleman as for ; the en ’man. One of their jokes was: ■ “W?»y am I like a young widow?” For fear the audience might ndt under stand, the middleman would repeat: “Why are you like a young widow? I am obliged to confess I do not know. Kind ly tell us why you are like a young : widow.” The answer to that was: “Because I do not s»ay long tn black.” The civil war brought out a lot of new jokes that were popular in those days. Sam Sharpley used to tear holes in a big handkerchief while delivering his monolog; then, poking his face through the largest hole, he would say: “The innocent cause «f the war.” It does not sound funny now. but audiences used to shri< k and scream. Another famous civil war joke was one of George Christy’s. He advised Lincoln tsf w uy hickory nuts. “We kin crack ’em open an’ keep de kernels an’ Throw de shells in de enemy's camp.” he said. Solomon said there was nothing new un der the sun, but there are many new jokes sprung every year, the wise man’s statement to the contrary. He was a grouch. So would any man , be who had as many wives as he had. learn the cure? Well, nobody recommend ed it to me. so I reckon you might say It was to begin with an experiment. But the selection of olive oil was prompted by Its known efficacy as an aid to dl- ■ geatlon, so it was not altogether a chance shot.'* - t Abstinence from water for an boor be fore and after meals is of the utmost im portance, says Mr. Wilkins. "If the stom ach is burdened with a quantity of water while the process of digestion is going * on,” says he. "fermentation sets in, and the whole process is deranged.” Though well past middle age. Mr. Wil kins is healthy, hale and hearty, a fine example of what the simple. Inexpensive remedy has done for a dyspeptic wreck. r / celved severe shocks because of too closo friendship with the apparatua Park Commisloner W. C. Puckett, who recalls the occasion and who is Friday relating an account of it to all his friends, has a vivid recollection of the event He was quite active in politics in those days and the circus with its superstition-in spiring electric lights came to town on the same day that the vote was being cast in the famous Colquitt-Norwood gu bernatorial election. This was on October 7. 1881. The circus pitched its tents on a vacant lot just opposite the capltol on the north ern side of East Hunter street and it is said that a caravan of people journeyed here from several adjoining counties, some arriving days in advance of the effi* CUB. This exhibition occurred several yean before Atlanta began using elecrticlty tor illumination purposes. I diameter. Its weight is in. keeping with the tout ensemble of the whole outfit when the president dons it, for it tips the beam ..t 12 pounds. Taft, when he gets ' the hat will be clothed literally from I head to foot by Texans. At the Repub -11 lican convention last year the Texas del- | eg at ion gave him a huge pair of trousers >. constructed by Texas tailors of wool from 11 Texas-grown sheep.
