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Newspaper Page Text4 The Semi-Weekly Jonrnal. Lattred at tt>* AtUsta PoatotfU* aa MaU Mat* ter of the Second ClaM- JAMES R. GRAY. Editor and General Manager. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. twelve months *tx moots* *5 Three months * “ The Bemi-Weeki/ Journal Is P ub “?** < *5!? Toesdrj sad Friday, and t» mailed Lj the short est routes foe early delivery. It eon tains news from all over ths w®t'd broucbt bf special leased wires Into onr otOce. It has a ataft ot utetiucuiahed couttibutora. aritn strou< 4c.irtn.enu ot special value to too heme and the farm. Agents wanted at every postottlee. Liberal eon. mission allowed. Uvtflt free. The »ly traveling representatives »• have are J. A. Bryan. B. ». Bolton. C. C Coyle and M. H. Gilreath. We will be only foe money paid to the above named travel Ul repriseuLatlvea. ♦ NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS* The label used for addressing ♦ ♦ your paper shows the time your ♦ ♦ subscription expires. By renewing ♦ ♦ at least two weeks before the date ♦ ♦ on thia label, you Insure regular ♦ ♦ service. * ♦ In ordering paper changed, be ♦ ♦ sure to mention you old. as well as ♦ ♦ your new. address. If on a rural ♦ ♦ routs, plsass give the route num- ♦ ♦ bar * ♦ *’« cannot enter subscrtpW° M to ♦ ♦ begin with back numbers. Remit- ♦ ♦ tan co should be sent by postal ♦ ♦ order, or registered mall. ♦ ♦ Address all orders and notices ♦ ♦ for this department to THE SEMI- ♦ ♦ WEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta. Ga. ♦ Tuesday, February 8, 1910. ! M , Is life worth living—so high? — Both Castro and Zelaya have been ac counted for. Now for Dr. Cook. The liquor problem is stirring even Chicago. Milwaukee will fall yet. By the way. which is it. the Ballinger- Pinchot or Pinchot-Ballinger investiga tion? A California man confessed to having been married 19 times—mind you. admit ted it. Not contented with the space he has already taken up, Brokaw Is going to appeal his divorce suit. The missionary conference wants Uncle Joe Cannon to start praying. He proba bly is. although not in a certain sense. It is to be hoped that "Nasomotor rhinitis." the new disease caused by au tomobiles, won't be as expensive to re pair. Colonel Roosevelt continues to kill rhin.xen in Africa, but what is that to a man who has tackled hide-bound Re publicans ? The United States government has promised to Join in the fight against blind tigers. This Just shows the growing spirit of paternalism. The fact that John D. Rockefeller Is planning a roof garden for his house doesn't mean necessarily that he is con templating vaudeville. Frankfort. Germany, denies that Dr. Cook is in its midst. The doctor has trou ble finding some place to adopt him. A Bl Louis man is said to have said that he expected death when he stopped drinking. He didn't say. though, wheth er ft was an awful death. He who steals our meat steals cold storage. Meat ten months old has been found in New Jersey. How old must the eggs be? The determination of the administration to have counsel for the “defense’’ in the Baliinger-Pinchot investigation would indicate that the defense is “up against it." . TELL ME A > /fetbCHILDREN'S' PLAYTIME— THE KIND DWARF. Big Ears, a dwarf with enormous ears, was being tormented by his older broth ers Pinchme and Wiggles, so he ran cry ing from their hut. Down the road and through the woods he hobbled as fast as his short degs would permit. Going down the path he met a dairy maid on her way home from milking the rows. Seeing the queer little fellow, whom she knew to be a Troll tn trouble, she Inquired if she might help him. Big Kars told her he was hungry, and Straightway she gave him some of the warm milk from the pail. Just then up ran Pinchme and Wiggles, who demanded some milk. too. But the maid refused them because they had been unkind to their brother. This an gered the dwarfs very much, and they straightway caused all the milk to dis appear from the pail. The maid went on her way with a heavy heart, well knowing her master would beat her for bringing home an empty pail. And truly her master was aiAry. Taking down a heavy whip from above the door, he raised it to strike her, but just then a splendid coach with six black horses came driving up. The coach door opened, and out sprang a handsome knight and Big Ears. “You cannot beat this maid.” screamed the little dwarf. “She was kind to m». and now she is to marry this knight and live in his castle.” So saying, they took the maid to the coach, and they say her unkind employ er has never seen her from that day to this, but site lives in greatest happiness in the Troll knight’s castle. GIVE THE “PEOPLE A PARCELS POST. The time has come when our national government, in justice to itself and to the people, should establish a parcels post —a sys tem whereby parcels of merchandise weighing from an ounce to a hundred or even two hundred pounds could be carried through the mails at a reasonable charge. Such a system would be of vast economy and convenience to the public. It would bring benefits equally as great and certain to the government. It would stimulate trade by providing a fair and adequate system of distribution for the products of the soil, the factory and the store. By the same means, it would reduce high and prices on food articles, for it would make possible a direct and cheap com munication bettveen the producer and the consumer. Furthermore, a parcels post would mean tens of millions of dollars to the rural mail service that is now a dead expense and, it is said, the chief cause of our postal department’s enormous annual deficit. It would blot out that deficit within less than five years. For all of these reasons, the government should establish a parcels post. Let us examine them one by one; first, the profits to the postal department, because that reason being clear, the others will be more readily understood. And at every step bear in mind this sact —that the public is compelled to pay the express com panies sixteen cents a pound for carrying parcels, and that last year one of these companies declared a dividend of three hundred per cent. The postal department s annual deficit is one of the gravest problems our government faces. Every year the department comes out millions of dollars behind. What is the cause? The post master general gives two Answers. First, he says, the department loses eight millions a year by transporting periodicals and news papers at one cent a pound. Next, he says, the rural delivery ser vice costs thirty-two millions a year and returns comparatively little or nothing in revenues. We do not believe that the one-ceut-a-pound postage on peri odicals and newspapers has anything to do with the deficit. Can ada's postal department charges only one-fourth of a cent a pound on this class of mail matter, and her postal department closed the fiscal year of 1909 with a surplus of more than eight hundred thou sand dollars. The fact is, that country reduced its postage rate from one-half to one-fourth cent because it found that under the former rate its profits were excessive. Canada is i-ore sparsely populated than is the United States and its territory is equally as wide. We must, therefore, look elsewhere than to the one-cent-a pound rate on periodicals for an explanation of our own country’s enormous postal deficit. The explanation is to be found partly in the rural delivery service, which is now unprofitable, but which could be made highly profitable by a parcels post. It is to be found very largely in the franking privilege now extended members of congress and in the government’s unbusiness-like contracts with the railroads. Con gressmen are allowed to mail free of charge all manner of material, ranging from campaign documents up to garden seed and type writers. The government pays the railroads almost as much for carrying two hundreds pounds of mail a thousand miles as a two hundred-pound passenger would pay for being carried the same distance. When these business laxities are corrected and the rural delivery service is put on a paying basis, as it can be, the postal deficit problem will have been solved. We have dwelt upon these incidental facts to show that our present postal rate of one cent a pound on so-called second-class matter is not unduly cheap. With business management the gov ernment could make money out of this one-cent rate. Germany carries parcels for one-third of a cent a pound from one end of the empire to the other; all kinds of parcels, weighing from an ounce to a hundred pounds. From a financial standpoint, therefore, the United States could profitably establish a parcels post at a charge to the public of not more than one cent a pound, as compared with the express com panies’ sixteen-cents-a-pound rate to the general public. A parcels post is an entirely feasible proposition. What, then, would be its specific advantages to the postal de partment and to the people? How would it help to reduce the postal deficit by putting the rural mail service on a paying basis? How would it stimulate the country’s trade? How would it re duce high prices on the necessaries of life and prove a blessing to every family in this nation? First, as to the rural delivery service. On this service the gov ernment is spending more than thirty-two million dollars annually. If that outlay should bring no return, it would still be a wise, cer tainly a benign investment, for of all the institutions now making for American progress, there is none more powerful than this. But is it necessary that the rural free delivery should be a dead expense? The postmaster general reports that the average wagon or buggy on these routes carries only twenty-five pounds each trip, so that the number of stamps sold does not approximate the cost of the system. But suppose each wagon or buggy carried five hun dred or seven hundred pounds on each trip; then certainly the sys tem would pay for itself and possibly net the government a profit. That is precisely what would happen if a parcels post were estab lished. If country merchants and country residents could receive parcels of merchandise from the city as easily and cheaply and al most as quickly as they now receive their daily mail, who questions what the result would be? Where the rural mail delivery now carries twenty-five pounds, it would then carry from three hundred to seven hundred. At a charge of one cent a pound, two deliv eries a day of five hundred pounds each would mean ten dollars in addition to what the government now receives. Nor would there be any considerable extra expense attached to a parcels post, because the government is already equipped with most of the ma chinery thereto essential. It already has more than sixty thousand organized postoffiees with their managers and clerks, heat and light and other appliances. To handle parcels as well as letters would require practically nothing but additional delivery vehicles. If Canada can clear over eight hundred thousand dollars a year on a postage rate of only one-fourth of a cent a pound, then surely the United States could successfully conduct a parcels post on a charge four times as much. The fact is. with its present equipment, our government could make enough from a parcels post to wipe out the postal deficit. In justice to the government, there fore. such a system should be established. We shall now discuss briefly the parcels post’s advantages to the public and also the public’s right to those advantages. We have said that this system would stimulate the country’s trade and would tend to reduce the present exorbitant prices of food prod ucts. An illustration will make this clear. Suppose cold storage eggs cost forty cents a dozen in Atlanta yesterday. There are scores of farms and villages within a radius of a hundred miles hence where frpsh eggs could be bought for twenty cents a dozen. With a parcels' post offering a transportation rate of one cent a pound and a delivery almost as speedy and equally as convenient as that of the mail, the Atlanta housewife could get the twenty cent eggs and the rural producer could get the Atlanta market every twenty-four hours. Applied to the country at large, this illustration,means that the producer would no longer be forced to seU to giant monopolies and that the consumer would no longer be forced to buy from them. Thus, one of the cardinal conditions now making possible those combinations that restrain trade and raise prices unjustly would be swept away. To our present crude and inadequate system of distribution, such combinations are largely due. It has been truly said that the only cheap transportation today is in bulk. The es tablishment of a government parcels post would supply this very need and hence would benefit the farmer, the merchants both in cities and towns, the manufacturer and the people as a whole. Business expediency and fair play both demand that such a system be established. THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JUVRNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1910. PULL FOR A COTTON EXPOSITION. The upspringing of Jack’s bean stalk could scarcely have been more remarkable than has been the development of the south’s cotton products and cotton industries within the past few decades. So fast and so diversely have they grown that even we in their midst are but dimly aware of what they mean to ourselves and to the whole nation. There is this significant feature to our cotton industries —they influence and largely determine everyone of our other economic interests. Upon them our manufactures, railroads, merchandizing and schools considerably depend. It is chiefly through cotton that the south holds a grip upon the nation and the world. Especially significant, therefore, is a movement that has been started to bring together within a single association all these al lied interests and to hold next autumn in some southern city, most probably in Atlanta, a great cotton products exposition. Men of business foresight, prominent among whom are Mr. G. S. Weever, have proposed this enterprise and on February 10 will hold a con ference in this city looking toward its practical formulation. We trust the plan will meet with that abundant measure of success it merits. The association and the exposition are logically parts of a single commanding project. The association will co-ordinate into one effective body all those varied enterprises which cotton has brought forth. It will unite the farmer, the railroads, the manu facturer of cotton products, the educator, the merchant and the press, thus fashioning one great instrument for still further devel opment. Its aim is to encourage more intelligent methods of cul tivation not only in cotton, but in every branch of agriculture, and also to establish closer relationships between ourselves and the markets of all the world. The proposed exposition would be one of the first definite outcomes of the association. The time is ripe for just such an event. A national assembling of all the products which cotton produces would be an incident of world-wide educational value. It would be to us what the great corn exposition recently held at Omaha, Neb., was to the west. During the first year following that exposition the quality of corn in that territory improved two hun dred and thirty-five per cent. Omaha and Nebraska were brought into national fame and have remained there as corn-growing cen ters. ' So would the cotton exposition be to this city and state and section. The cotton exposition of 1881 was really the beginning of modern Atlanta. We believe that its influence would be duplicated in a similar and larger enterprise next autumn. This project is magnificent in its aims and thoroughly feasible. We hope and believe that it will materialize. MANKIND MUST AND WILL HAVE BOTH FAITH AND FREEDOM The present time is the day of the sons of men. Man as man is coming into his own as never before. Since the coming of the Son of Man into the world the ap praisement of human nature has been steadily rising. In the midst of all the subordinate creation He stood and said to men, “Are ye not <rf much more val ue than they?” and forthwith men began to place a higher valuation on themselves and all mankind. The central principle of Christianity being the atoning sacrifice of a divine Saviour for us men. it can not be otherwise than that the relig ion of Jesus spreads over the world hu man nature must be appreciated as a thing of supreme value. And Christianity is spreading. Its influ ence is felt even by the sons of those who do not consciouusly and professedly accept the teachings and embrace the sal vation which Christ offers. It is pervasive like a balm-laden atmosphere, and thou sands in nominal Christian lands are af fected by it although declining to call themselves Christians. In lands that are accounted heathen its influence has gone, and pagan nations, becoming acquainted with the life and institutions of the peo ples called Christian, enter somewhat into iheir spirit and follow their example. Hence the progress of Christianity tends to pull down despotism and to set up in their room various forms of popular gov ernment, all moving in the direction of the liberation of the race from political thraldoms of every sort. This movement is manifest just now in a remarkable de gree in every part of the world. Russia, Turkey, and Persia have modified their ancient autocracies and established na tional assemblies within the last few years . Japan has had a diet for many years past, and even slow moving im perial auuthorltles of hoary China prom ise some sort of national congress or par liament at an early date. It thus appears that throughout the whole habitable earth men are being esteemed more and kings regarded less and less. In lands which have lo.ig boasted of their free institu tions there is a strong tendency to still greater freedom. The prerogative of ti tled and privileged classes are being cur tailed and the power of the common peo ple is being proportionately increased in matters of government. Witness the con test between the Lords and Commons in conservative England and throughout the United Kingdom. With our notions of political freedom and constitutional liberty we are apt to look upon all this world-wide movement as one of unmixed good; and as a mani festation of religious forces working for the uplifting of all mankind it deserves the entusiastic approval of all Christ ian people. But it is not without its perils. The progress of a few Christian ideas when unaccompanied with the spread of real Christian motives creates dangerous conditions always. Christianity is a money-making relig ion. It must be so by reason of the vir tues which it enjoins and the vices which it restrains. The Christian virtues of frugality, industry, and sobriety tend to the production of wealth. Very natur ally, therefore, the wealth of the world is found in Christian lands, while the squalid poverty of mankind is huddled for the most part in pagan countries. The destitution of the worst slum dis tricts of christendom offers no parallel to the wretchedness which festers and faints and perishes in heathendom. But just because Christianity is a money making religion, If only its thrifty virtues are propogated it runs to ruin in the riot and luxury which are made possible by its own accumulations. Hence we see irt nominally Christian lands vast ac cumulations of wealth and monstrous vices springing from opulence. AH the unrest of christendom today about the distribution of wealth may be traced to the fact that the chirstian nations have accepted Christianity only partially; they have made too much of the virtues which lead to the acquisition of property and too little of the principles which Christ enjoins for the right holding and use of property. Like Judas it is the treasurer of the race and carries the bag because it follows the Master, while at the same time it comes under the temptation of betraying for silver and gold the Lord under whom it holds its position. Unless it speedily takes all the teaching of its Lord and turns from its greed, it may like Jiidas end in self-destruction. In truth the Christian world is not religious tfciough to be safe in the possession of the riches which have already come Into its hands, not to speak of its prospective wealth. It will take fire In the conflagra tion of social revolution if the flames of love and brotherhood and piety do not burn mor® brightly and consume the in flamable vires of our civilization. So likewise Christianity begets free dom as it qul' kens acquisitiveness. The free institutions of the world are in Christian lands, and paganism is begin ning to imitate them from afar. But liberty without law is the most de-, structlve explosive that the mind of man ever conceived. The French Revo lution In the midst of which Madame Roland exclaimed, “O Liberty, what crimes are committed In thy name,'' ought to have taught the world a lesson about lawless freedom which It could never forget. The spread of popular institutions throughout the earth will be perilous to the race unless Christian motives to sus tain and direct such institutions are pro pagated as rapidly as these Ideas of freedom advance. “The Young Turks” with a parliament may do more harm than the old Sultan with his harem and manifold diabolism; they are many and he uas but one. The despotism of mob ocracy is vastly more dangerous than the oppression of a monarchy. The world knows how to deal with the Chi nese Empire as at present existing and operating; but who shall say what would come to pass if the four hundred mil lions of heathen Chinese fell to voting and setting up leaders under some such slogans as "China for the Chinese” and "Death to the Foreign Devils”? We have seen what a few demagogues on the Pacific Coast can do to embroil our whole nation; what if they were answered on the other side of the world by godless men of like passions and principles as themselves? And they will be thus an swered as soon as popular government In China has been set up. The rulers of Japan are more sensitive towards us than are those of China just in proportion to the more popular character of the Jap anese government. "The Yellow Peril” of the near future will not be weak Japan; It will be great and mighty China, aroused from the slumber of centuries and frenzied with a new sense of free dom and power. As the political bonds of the nations are relaxed the moral bonds must be strengthened, or the freedom of the world will fan the passions of the race into a world-wide conflagration. A French revolution of planetary propor tions is both possible and probable, if the peaceful principles of Christianity are not spread as rapidly as its forces of free dom move. Partial Christianity Is more perilous than paganism, if It be not In truth a sort of paganism. A prescription moat skillfully compounded for giving health may become a deadly poison if some of its constituents be left out. The world needs a more Christian Christianity in christendom and a more rapid promulgation of this Christianity io all lands. It Is clear that the crowns are coming off the heads of earthly po tentates, or if left on their heads that they are to be much dimmed by the cur tailment of the ancient prerogatives which they have symbolized hitherto. But man kind must have a ruler to whom to look Anarchy can not be the means of re gaining the lost Paradise of the race. We can not break into the golden age of universal peace by the attacks of howling mobs deifying liberty and abdicating rea- I son. Nor can we climb into it as the builders of Babel undertook to scale the walls of heaven; no political structure which men can erect can bring them any ' thing but confusion of tongues if God is not enthroned in their hearts. The aspi ration for universal peace can only be I fulfilled by the recognition of the Prince I of Peace: the longing for liberty can be satisfied only by the acceptance of H.m of whom it was said, “If the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.” There has not arisen among men any one fit for universal dominion but Jesus. Alexander dreamed of it and died drunk at Babylon. Napoleon entertained the thought, and showed himself incapable ot ruling in purity his own household. Only the Son of Man has shown Himself en [ titled to reign over men and capable of giving them good government by His rule. If mankind can not take his law as the law of life, there is an end of all law In the earth; only the religion of Christ Is of world-wide application. Buddhism and 1 Brahminism are Oriental, and can not pess over the seas to the West. Mo hamedanism is ethnic and immoral, stricken with paralysis in the home of its wild dissipations and horrid cruelties. The systems of modern philosophy have no more staying power or life-giving qual ities than the theories of Aristotle, or the speculations of Plato; they entertain a small class of academics in the lands where they are most esteemed and influ ence inappreciably the masses of the people. By every token our world is shut up to be a Christian world, or a religionless world; and if it is going to be a relig ionless world it can not be a fiee world. The wot Id-wide movement toward" popu lar government must be accompanied by a world-wide spread of Christian life and doctrine, or it will end in disaster and a return to despotism. Men can not afford to go bacK to des potism; they must go forward to Christ’s reign. The hope of mankind is in the modem missionary movement, therefore. This movement issues from the free land of christendom,—mostly from England and the United States. This is as it shoul'l be. Since these nations have bean tu* y dr* > if hX Another Georgia Veteran Writes STOCKBRIDGE, GA., Jan. 3., 1910. Mrs. W. H. Felton, Kind Madame: I am a Georgia Con federate veteran, also a subscriber to The Semi-Weekly Journal—have been a subscriber for a long time. In Macon. Ga., I volunteered at the age of 15—1863. I served until the surrender at Hign Point, North Carolina, without a day s leave of absence, or lying in the hos pital one minute. I have a little 60-acre faring that prevents me from drawing a ptlslon, and I have no pension for my «-my service . I going to try to write you of a trip throfch Atlanta in the year 1864. The regiment I belonged to was the First Confederate volunteers, and we were coming through Alabama and Geor gia. from Fort Gaines, Ala., to join Johnsons army, then lying in winter quarters around Atlanta, Ga. About daylight on February 1, 1864, we reached Atlanta-a miserably cold, dark cloudy morning—with a fine mist of rain falling on us. By some unexpected cause, our baggage had to all be transferred from the At lanta and West Point train to the Western and Atlantic, causing a delay of two or three hours. During that time we found it neces sary to put out a guard around the de pot, to prevent the troops from scatter ing about over town. I was stationed at a pump, located at the corner of Wall and Loyd streets, just across Loyd street. There was a hotel there with a long veranda, both up stairs and down. There was also a lady walking to and fro on the upper veranda, and I soon noticed that she was watching me. She continually kept looking down to ward me. But as she was shivering with ocld, she presently went inside. Soon a ne gro waiter caine out and over to me, With a waiter in his hand. Said he, “a lady in the hotel sends you some break fast.” It was all so nice, and I tell you it was gratefully appreciated by me. Her kindness reached me at a time that I never can forget—although it has been 46 years ago. I never will in life forget the lady, although I never learn ed her name during all these years past and gone. She may be living yet, and I trust she has never known want or affliction. Respectfully W. G. GIBSON Route 1, Stockbridge, Ga. Accidental Deaths DALLAS. Ga., R. F. D., No. 4. Jan. 1, 1910 Mrs. W. H. Felton, Cartersville, Ga.: Dear Mrs. Felton—Your writings have intrested and helped me a great deal, many of them going into the scrap-book 'for future reference. It is well remembered among the older : inhabitants of the community where 1 am trying “to teach the young idea how to shoot,” that your late lamented and | teachers of the world in freedom they , should lead mankind into the faith by I which only freedom can be preserved I This great movement can no longer be I pooh-poohed as the work of hysterical women and ignorant children. It is com manding the attention and receiving the approval of the greatest thinkers and nub- ■ Heists of the most enlightened nations of I the earth. The churches of our own coun j try alone expend some twenty millions 'of dollars in this work every year and ; they will within the next few years spend itwice or thrlcs as much as they now I employ in its furtherance. Thousands of ; the brightest and best young men and ' women from our homes and colleges are going to foreign lands to help bring the nations to Christ. Nothing since the days l of the Crusaders can compare with the enthusiasm which is back of this move ment. The cause is no longer defended and promoted by the clergy alone Throughout our own and other lands a vast movement known as “The Laymen’s Missionary Movement” has sprung up. Iq it are enlisted the brains of the most in tellectual and the purses of the most wealthy. It will not be turned aside by scoffs nor dismayed by sneers. I The world is going to be free and the i world is going to be Christian. Then shall , be fulfilled the saying that is written and from which the Saviour preached his first set mon in the synagogue at Nazareth i where he was brought up, “The Spirit of ' the Lord is upon me, because he hath ! anointed me to preach the gospel to ! the poor, he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the capitves, and recovering of sight to ' the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.” Mankind is going to have both faith and freedom in Christ Jesus. 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X X Won’t you help me introduce the wonderful Dr. Haux “Perfect X X Vision ” Spectacles in your locality on one easy, simple condition T X X y° u sre * genuine, bona-fide spectacle-wearer (no children J X need apply) and want to do me this favor, write me at once and X X. just say: “Dear Doctor: Mail me your Perfect Home Eye X X Tester, absolutely free of charge, also full particulars of X X. your handsome 10-karat Spectacle Offer.’’ and X ' address me personally and I will give your letter X m y own personal attention. Address:— HAUX, (Personal), Haux >ST. LOUIS, MO*—( | BOTE.-'lbe Above la tie Largest Spectacle House in the World, aud NEW KNITTED HOOD A practical as well as beautiful fashion for the links or automobile Is the new knitted hood. It is shaped after the lines of the gnome cap, with eyelets left open around the edge. Through this is run a broad ribbon to draw the cap close to the head and supply the side rosettes and long strings. loved husband made an address there during one of his races for congress. He has also preached near there. Your article “In Midst of Life We Are in Death,” was of more than usual inter est to me. If the government would take notice of all the accidental deaths in the United States, explaining how they came about, giving advice on the same, publish ing in book form for free distribution, as it does so many other books and pam phlets, many lamatable accidents would be prevented. At my leisure, during the last few months. I have been making a study of the accidental deaths which have occur red in my home county, Paulding, since 1832. when it was surveyed. Though this country is sparsely settled I was surprised at the number. While it is impossible to get the exact number, I have the circumstances concerning more < than 150 fatal accidents wkich have oc curred in Paulding county alone, during the past 77 years. At that rate, while Paulding is older and larger than some counties in the state. It is a great deal younger and smaller than many others, there have ocurred in Georgia, alone, during the last three-quarters of a centu ry. 21,900 accidental deaths. Taking Geor gia as an average of the states, the start ling number of more than 1,000,000 deaths have occurred from accidental causes in these United States during that time. Just think of LOOO.OOO saddened homes, three dozen a day, when, with proper care, forethought, and judgment, at least three-fourths of them might be avoided. Is it not worth while for Uncle Sans, who takes so much cognizance of cyclones, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in foreign countries, to pay some attention to these sad occurrences in his own? The causes of the fatal accidents and numbers from each, as nearly aa they can be classed, in Paulding, have been: on railroad. 33: burned, 26; trees, 15; drowned, 11; firearms, 11; machinery, 11; falling, 7; runaways. 7; exploding boilers, 6; light ning, 5; poison, 5; blasts, 3; frozen, 2; choked, 2; gas in well, 2; kicked by mule 2; bathing while too warm, 2; storm. 1; hydrophobia. 1; snake bite, 1; miscella neous, 8. Very truly yours, J. WOFFORD COLE. P. S.—Maybe the following paragraph from page 358 of A. H. Stephens’ History of the United States will throw some light on the question of when the cold Saturday occurred: “The winter of 1834-35 was noted for its great severity throughout the United States. On the 14th of January. 1835. mer cury congealed at Lebanon, N. Y., and several other places. The Chesapeake bay was frozen from its head to Cape Charles and Henry. On the Sth of Feb ruary the thermometer fell to 8 degrees below zero, as far south as 34 degrees north latitude. The day before, the 7th. is remembered as *the cold Saturday’ to this day. The Savannah river was coated with ice at Augusta. Orange trees were killed as far south as St. Augustine, Fla., and fig trees, nearly 100 years old, were killed on the coast of Georgia. The ground in the interior of the state was covered with snow for several weeks. The falls of snow in Georgia on the 14th of January and 2d and 3d of March aver aged from 11 to 13 inches deep.” White's Statistics of Georgia says: “February 8, 1835. coldest weather ever known in Georgia.” From the best information I can get. February 7, 1935. was the cold Saturday. J. W. C.