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4 THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL AnJUTTA, GL 5 MOBTH FOBSYTB ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class MMXS *. GBAY, President and Editor. SUBBCBIPTXOW PBICE. Twelve months Sl* months ....40c Thr*« months 26c The Semi-Weekly Journal Is published on Tuesday and Friday, and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over tne world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished contributors, with strong departments of special value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoftice. Liberal commis sion allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Manager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton. C- C. Coyle. L. H. Kimbrough, Chas. H. Wood I iff and- L. J. Farris. We will oe responsible only for money paid to the above-named traveling represent atives. < . VOTXCB TO SUBBCBZBBBS. The label used for addressing year paper snows the time jew snbserfptk'c expires. By re nr wing at least two weeks be fore the date ots this label, you insure regular service. la ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old, as well as your new address. If os a route, please give the route acsßber. We cannot enter aobecrtptlons to begin with back numbers. Raaaittasce aho ld be seat by postal order or registered mail. Address ail orders and notices for this Department to THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOIBNAL, Atlanta, Ga. V Don't Sell a Birthright For a Mess of Pottage Some of our contemporaries are unduly sensi tive over The Journal’s opposition to the sale of the State Road Because we condemn a certain scheme of the Louisville and Nashville Railway Company, they strangely assume that we are con demning them. When we refer to "the emissaries and dependents’* of the L. and N., the Macon Tele graph grows black in the face and bawls like An cient Pistol in bls cupa The Telegraph is wasting wind. We have never accused it or any newspaper of acting from unworthy motives or unworthy in fluences In its advocacy of selling the State Road. On the contrary, we have said that: “There are honest and disinterested per sons who are persuaded that the State Road could be sold’ to advantage.*’ If the Telegraph reads itself out of that category, it does so by its own interpretation, not ours. Every newspaper and every Individual is enti tled to the utmost freedom of opinion on this as on all issues. When the Augusta Chronicle declares that it favors the sale of the State Road and has favored it for years, we do not doubt the Chron icle’s sincerity, though we feel sure that its Judg ment in this case is unsound. What the Journal insists upon is that persons who are in the em ploy of the Louisville and Nashville Railway Com pany are ill qualified to advise the people of Geor gia concerning the future disposition of the West ern and Atlantic Road. And it is from such per sons that the most persistent plea for the sale of that road -proceeds. Representing the Louisville and Nashville as attorneys or in other capacities, it is quite natural that they should urge this propo sition They are not to be censured for fidelity to their employe’s interests. But the people will have good reason to censure themselves if they are misled into surrendering the State’s most valuable piece of property. Imagine a man owning a gold mine which yields him thirty-five thousand dollars at the end of every month, year in and year out, whether times are fat or lean, which increases continually in value and which costs him not a penny for taxes or upkeep or operation. That represents the present worth of the Western and Atlantic railroad to the State of Georgia. During the twenty-year lease which ended in 1890. the rental from this road netted the State six million dollars. For the present lease of twenty-nine years, which ends in December. 1919, the rental will amount to twelve million, one hun dred and eighty thousand dollars. Thus within the two lease-periods the State will derive eighteen million, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars —a sum nearly three times greater than the State's entire bonded debt. In the face of this record, how can it be urged with any show of reason that we should sell the Western and Atlantic to pay the State’s bonded debt? The road’s rental alone, even at the com paratively low figures which-have obtained hereto fore, is far more than enough to take care of the bonded debt as it now stands or it may be in creased. It is not neeuful to sell this magic tree in order to enjoy its fruit. We have only to stand by and gather its golden harvest, the seasons through. Under the lease which ended in 1890 the State Road's rental was three hundred thousand dollars a year; under the lease now drawing to a close, it is four hundred and twenty thousand dollars a year; and under the next lease it should be cer tainly not less than six hundred thousand a year. If that lease runs, on those terms, for a period of thirty years, the State will receive eighteen million dollar* If it runs fifty years, the State will re ceive thirty million dollars. Meanwhile, it should be noted, the lessees will make extensive Improve ments on the road, their own interests constraining them to do so, so that the intrinsic value of. the property would be continually enhancing. Why should the State part with an investment which has been so enriching in the past and which, if duly protected, will yield incomparably higher bounties in the future? Why sell a source of steady and permanent and increasing income? Whatever amount of money the sale might bring (and we have no assurance in present circumstances that it would not fall far* below the road's real value) would be swept awv by instant demands and special appropriations. Although existing debts could be paid with the proceeds, other obliga tions would arise. But the constant stream of Western and Atlantic revenue which we now have for meeting them would be lost forever. More than that, the chief bulwark of the State’s credit would be lost. With the Western and Atlan tic railroad as collateral, Georgia can borrow at low rates of Interest, all the money it needs. Georgia bonds now are rated among the soundest securities in America, and are sought by the most prudent in vestors. This is true very largely for the reason that these bonds are guaranteed by the State Road. The State cannot afford, for any consideration, to part with its most valuable basis of credit. Who would profit by the sale of the Western and Atlantic? Certainly not State institutions such as the public schools, to whose maintenance the Western and Atlantic rental steadily contributes. Certainly not the taxpayers, each of whom is a stockholder in this great property There is only one interest to whom the sale of the State Road would be profitable, ana that is the Louisville and Nashville Railway Company. This alien corpora tion evidently is bent upon ruling or ruining the State Road. If it can crush the State Road’s traffic by means of a parallel line, it will be satisfied. If it can depress the rental price of the State Road in the next lease, it will be satisfied. If it can buy in the State Road at a bankrupt figure, it will be ex ultantly joyful. There is no qse in berating the Louisville and Nashville Railway Company for these designs. That corporation is not concerned with the schools or the credit or the taxpayers of Georgia. It is concerned solely, and quite naturally, with its own aggrandise ment. It is controlled by remote financial interests that care no more for the rank and file of Georgia people than for the seals of the Arctic circle. It is playing its own game as shrewdly as it can. The Important question is, will the people of Georgia keep their wits about them and insist upon the pro tection and development of their State’s most valua ble possession, or will they guilelessly part with this birthright for a mess of pottage? County Health Work. By adopting the provisions of the Ellis Public Health Act, Dougherty County has taken a long stride forward. This law, which was passed by the Legislature several sessions ago, authorizes the establishment of county boards of health, the crea tion of sanitary districts, the employment of health officers and other practical measures- for the pre vention of disease and the development of hygienic conditions. Dougherty county has availed itself of these privileges and has entered upon a systematic campaign of sanitation. Its rewards will be rich and enduring; and its example, let us hope, will be followed by every county which has not yet undertaken this all-important service. According to conservative estimates made a few seasons ago, preventable disease levies upon the people of Georgia an annual tax of nearly six teen dollars per capita. At a cost of less than ten cents per capita every county in the State could be provided with a public health system that would .reduce and eventually cancel this dread toll of treasure and life. The money spent in employing public health officers and in maintaining a system of hygienic and medical inspection, particularly for schools, will be a mere trifle beside the vast benefits thus to be secured. Merely as a business matter, health is a com munity’s most valuable asset, and disease its heaviest liability. Whatever reduces the efficiency and happiness of the group limits the efficiency and happiness of the individual- Selfishness and al truism argue with equal force for the protection of public health. Rural districts as well as towns and cities should act upon these sound principles. Every county in Georgia should have a diligent health board and a competent health officer devot ing his entire time to such service. Thus millions of dollars and thousands of lives will be saved and a nobler Commonwealth will be built. Raising What They Eat. "When Mississippi raises what she eats and eats what she raises, and makes cotton her surplus crop, and quits eating up cotton before produced and exchanging cotton for mortgages, and sells her cotton to whom and when she pleases for cash, then, and only then, will Mississippi be the land of milk and honey, and plenty, too, and then the boys and girls will stay on the farm, and Mississippi will flour ish like unto the green bay tree. Why not now?” For this bit of homespun philosophy, we are indebted to Mr. Clifford Williams, of Meridian, Miss., whose words should appeal not only to his own Commonwealth but to every nook and corner of the Southland where food crops are slighted and cotton is overdone. His advice is peculiarly apt in a season when the temptation to plant an excess of cotton has re turned. Some farmers there are who forgot the stern lesson of 1914 and fancy that because cotton prices have Improved appreciably they can afford to risk a large acreage this year. Others Imagine that because the campaign for cotton reduction has been waged so earnestly, they can depend upon their neighbors planting a short crop, so that the big-crop man will gain a special advantage. The Manufacturers Record truly describee such delu sions when it says:: "To anyone with a vision longer than a Hibernian nose, such a course is obviously one of cutting his own throat; and maybe that would not be so bad, if his were the only funeral, but others, too, suffer the conse quences tn a more or less edgree." Certainly, the farmers of Georgia have every reason to repeat the prudent policy which they fol lowed last year by raising abundant supplies of meat, leaving cotton as a surplus product. Fire Losses on Cotton. insurance authorities estimate that fire losses on cotton this season amount to three million dol lars, sustained for the most part in Oklahoma, Texas and Georgia. This is striking evidence of the need for more and better warehouses. Aside from destruction by fire, thousands of bales of cot ton are damaged to the extent of hundreds of thousands of dollars by exposure to the weather. Furthermore, the lack of adequate warehouse facilities compels many farmers to sell their cotton when the market is unfavorable, and thus another large item of loss arises. The warehouse problem, indeed, is among the most far-reaching that confronts the agricultural and business interests of the South. There ought to be more warehouses of fireproof construction and up-to-date equipment for foodstuffs as well as cotton, though the latter now presents the broader need. Cotton stored in a thoroughly safe warehouse is a source of ready credit. Cotton ly ing in the open or in a poorly constructed building that may catch fire any day is a liability to its owner and to everyone concerned. There are cheering evidences, however, that this need is being recognized more and more clear ly by growers and merchants alike and is being met more and more adequately in enterprising communities. Such warehouses as the one recently established in Atlanta and those projected in other cities and States are an invaluable asset to the South. THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAI The Campaign of Defense For Georgia Industries. The railroads having combined to raise intra state freight rates in Georgia to an extortionate degree, all the interests thus threatened should combine in defense of their common welfare. This applies to every class of shippers and merchants and manufacturers and to every town and county in the State, for the prosperity of them all is im periled. No group of producers or consumers is spared in the crushing rate increases which the roads propose. They propose, for example, to charge thirty-eight percent more than now for hauling swine and other food animals from farms to pack ing plants and also to charge upwards of one hun dred percent more than now for hauling the pack ing-plant products to markets throughout the State. This means that the producer will get less and that the consumer will pay more. Indeed, it means that home industries of this character will be taxed out of existence, and that Georgia in stead of producing its own meat supplies will pay heavier tribute than ever to distant regions. This is but one instance among scores and hundreds. Canned fruits and vegetables, knitting factory products, farming implements, building materials, livestock, apples, fertilizers, cotton piece goods and sundry other commodities are included in the intrastate rate Increases which the roads are seeking to inaugurate—increases ranging from twenty to one hundred and forty-seven percent. If these exorbitant rates are allowed, Georgia’s in dustrial and agricultural development will be set incalculably and every field of the State’s mater ial interests will suffer. * It is Imperative, therefore, that a defensive campaign be organized among the merchants and manufacturers and communities in Georgia. A movement to that end is well under way. The ex ecutive committee of twelve shippers, who were appointed in pursuance of resolutions adopted by the shippers’ conference recently held at Macon and who represent each Congressional district in Georgia, will meet next Tuesday in Atlanta to per fect the plans for a Statewide fight against the proposed rate advances This committee is en titled to the largest possible measure of co-opera tion, for it is working to save the common inter ests of Georgia from irreparable injury. 0 Pioneers! For The Atlanta Journal Like idle dreamers in the sun We sit and tell the deeds we’ve done. Os peaceful victories we have won Through the tread of silent years— Yet never think of thi brave who fought On the outskirt land, where the Indian sought The lives of those who grimly wrought For us, O Pioneers! We sit in the halls of state and tell Os laws we’ve made so strong and well— But we nothing know of the awful hell That followed the early years, When you went out, through the valleys dim, Singing a nation’s birth-morn hymn, Trusting your fate and : nir strength in Him Who rules, O Pioneers! You sleep in many an unmarked grave. As sleep the loyal and the brave: No marble lifts, your fame to save, O Pioneers! O Pioneers! Yet Time shall hold your deeds of steel Safe from oblivion’s claim—and wield For you a nation’s deathless seal Through a nation’s grief and tears! H. E. HARMAN. The Searchlight A BIRD ORGAN. The German peasants in the Hartz mountains teach their birds to sing by a unique instrument known as a bird organ. It consists of two round sheet Iron cylin ders, one inside of the other. The lower one contains water. The upper one is manipulated by a series of small weights and pulleys which cause it to settle slowly downwards, the air being expelled through a whistle which has several modifiers to give variety to its tones. When the upper cylinder has come down the required distance a spring operates the weights that raise it again to repeat the sound. • • • GLASS HOSPITAL ROOM. The newly completed hospital of the Hebrew Infant asylum in New York contains one room built entirely of glass. It is divided Into twelve compartments, each having glass sides through which the nurse can see the baby at all times without coming In. Each com partment Is ventilated separately. A child having a communicable disease can be cared for in one of these little compartments without any possibility of giving it to the baby in the next one, although he may be only three feet away and the children can smile at each Quips and Quiddities Two witnesses were at the Waterford assizes in a case which concerned long continued poultry stealing. As usual, nothing could be got from them in the way of evidence until the nearly baffled prosecuting counsel asked: "Will you swear Pat Murphle. that Phady Houllgan has never to your knowledge stolen chickens?” "Bedad I would hardly swear, but I do know that if I was a chicken and Phady about I’d roost high.” ■ • • Doctor —You have nervous dyspepsia same as Brown had. His was caused by worrying over his butcher’s bill. I directed him to stop worrying. Stranger—Yes, and now he’s cured and I've got it. I’m his butcher. • • • •’Fore!” shouted the golfer, ready to play. But the woman on the course paid no attention. “Fore!” he repeated, with not a bit more effect than the first time. "Try her with ‘Three ninety-eight,’ ” suggested his partner. "She may be one of those bargain counter fiends.” • • • Thomas Mott Osborne, apropos of the charges brought against him as warden of Stng Sing, said at a dinner in New York: . "The major charges answer themselves'. As for the minor charges—well, they are so ungenerous and small as to be ludicrous. "They remind one in their ludicrous smallness of Mrs. Henry Peck. ” 'My husband has been deceiving me again!' this good lady snapped out at the sewing circle. ’’ *Oh, how so?’ the other ladies asked with eager interest. '"Why, said Mrs. Peck, ‘here I’ve been giving Henry 10 cents a day to ride to and from the office for dear knows how long, and I’ve just found out that the de ceitful wretch walks one way and spends the nickel.’ ” • • • "Papa,” said the hopeful youth, "can you tell me what is natural philosophy?” "Os course I can,” said papa, proud and relieved to find that there was at last something he could tell his offspring. "Natural philosophy is the science of cause and reason. Now, for Instance, you see the steam com ing out of the spout of the kettle, but you don't know why or for what reason it does so, and—” “Oh, but I do, papa,” chipped the hope of the house hold. "The reason the steam comes out of-the kettle is •so that mamma may open your letters without you knowing it.” , APRIL 11, 1916. AUNT SAMANTHA AND THE DOCTOR BY DM. FBAXK CRAJTX. Americans want to do something. When there is a fire they rush the engines to put it out; they do not stand helplessly by and wring their hands. When there is a plague of typhoid they do not commend their souls to heaven and hope for the best; they clean up. When there is any kind of trouble they try to find out what is the matter. When there is small pox they vaccinate. ♦ Americans are deeply stirred over the Euro pean war. It has created a mighty Impulse to “do something.’’ What if war should come to us? What can we do to avert so terrible a calamity? These are the questions- of a practical people. There is no use doing however, until we un derstand. When a man is taken deathly sick, savages sound the drums and howl and feed him outlandish herbs; other kinds Os savages beat him with clubs to drive the devil out; Aunt Samantha would adminster corn-sweats and- calamus; per haps Cousin Almira would read the patient chap ter sixteen in her favorite thought-cure book; tut an intelligent physician would first try to find out what made him ill, and then to remove the disturbing element. To protect ourselves from an attack of war, in flinjtely more destructive than leprosy, cholera, or the black death, we arise and shout, "Let us get busy at once! We must do something!”. And immediately we act like savages, or the aunt or cousin aforesaid. We mean well, but we are absurd because we do not Intelligently (1) ask what causes war, and (2) set about to elimi nate that cause. The country is in a fever of preparedness, simply because that is the old-time remedy. If blood lotting always has been used, let us let blood, no matter whether it has Invariably killed more than it cured or not. , The Gibraltar fact is that thorough military equipment has never saved any nation, has de stroyed .every one of the ancient nations (except China, which never had it), and is now decimat ing and bankrupting the nations who were ready, or are getting ready, for this that the German DIXIE GOES AHEAD. THE RISE OF THE MULE BY FREDEXIO J. HAMOX. '■ • ■ ATLANTA. Ga., March 25.—Over a hundred thou sand mules are now sold here every year, mak ing this the second mule market in the United States. St Louis is the only city that does a bigger, business in these hardy, long-eared monarchs of labor.’ • • • Mule trading has been capitalized and incorporated and organized to a fine point in Atlanta; and yet it remains—mule trading. It is still a matter of barter and haggle and bluff: farms and automobiles and all sorts of other things are swapped; and the man that thinks quickest usually comes out ahead. For the mule is one product that you can’t stand ardize. He comes in all sizes, colors and dispositions, and is affected with all sorts of idiosyncracles. pecu liarities and blemishes. He can't be sold by specfica tion, as big business sells everything else. With hun dreds of thousands of mules to be marketed, it is no longer possible to barter and argue over each individ ual mule, so they are sold in bunches of a dozen to thirty, and that is where tjie rapid thinking comes in. • • • The man that brought the mules from the country, the commission dealer who is selling them, and the buyer who may be an officer from London, a Russian count, or a Chatham county farmer, are gathered in the great barn which covers five acres. A bunch of nine mules are turned into a little pen where the men watch‘them, while a negro makes them race up and down to show off their points. “What’ll you take for the bunch?” demands the buyer. i "A hundred and ten.” is the answer. The mules are sold at an average price per head, no matter how many different values are represented in the bunch. "Cut out that little brown mare and the big mule with the broke ear. Now what’ll you take for “A hunderd and twenty-five,” oomes the answer like a shot Continually the buyer makes new combina tions by adding or substracting various animals, and each time the seller must revalue them in a flash. This fencing may go on for half an hour. until on ® ® r the other thinks he has an advantage and closes the deal. Naturally, the man with the greatest ability to judge mules and think fast will make the most money at this game . ... "You guarantee those mules sound?’ demands the buyer, when the deal is closed. “If they ain’t sound, I hope I never get nome alive,” pronounces the man from the country solemnly. 1 That settles it. ... During the last ten or fifteen years, the mule has achieved a new importance in the world. Here in At lanta’s stock yard twenty mules are sold to one horse, and the mules bring surprisingly large prices, while horses are almost incredibly cheap. The fact of the matter is that the gasoline engine has superseded the horse for speed and pleasure; but it can’t supersede the mule for hard work. When it comes to plowing new land and plowing it deep, the mule is the one logical candidate, and he always gets the job. He can stand an amazing amount of hard work, is subject to very little disease, lives to a great old age, and seems to be the natural working partner of the southern darkey. So the mule multiplies and increases in value throughout the south. Now Europe is after American mules, too. They move artillery over rough country with the same plodding determination that drags a deep pjow through a clay soil full of roots. The allies have an office in Atlanta, and four buyers are at the stock yards almost daily They have purchased 15,000 mules from one firm paying nearly two hundred dollars apiece for them. A good sound mule, at least a thousand pounds in weight, is what the military men like. The price for such mules ranges from 1185 to 1235. You can get any sort of a mule you want in the Atlanta market, however, from 340 runt to a 1,500-pound giant in per feet condition. • • • The mule trading in Atlanta takes place almost wholly between October and March. During the season last year about 115,000 mules changed hands They are shipped in from all parts of the south in lots of RIGHT breathing makes for long living. Every year thousands of people die an untimely death chiefly because they have always been breathing wrong. • , Right breathing also makes for right thinking. The man or woman who does not breathe right is to some extent crippling his or her thinking power. This is because the thinking organ, the brain, func tions well or badly according to the quality of the blood that nourishes it And the quality of the blood is directly affected by the way one breathes. To be properly enriched the blood needs a good sup ply of oxygen, which it absorbs from the lungs. Un less the breathing is done right the oxygen supply is insufficient. Besides which, the nourishment taken up by the blood from the lungs may be impure. This is most likely to be the case if the air is taken into the lungs through the mouth instead of through the nose. Nose breathing is the first principle of right breath ing. Mouth breathing is absolutely Inadequate to the needs of the human organism. Let a man breathe habitually through his mouth and he is sure to lower his vitality. Hence he will become more liable to contract disease, and less re sistant to it when contracted. Also, by the poverty of his blood’s nourishment, his mental as well as his physical vigor will be lessened. Therefore If you are a mouth breather, correct this bad habit without delay. It may be—lndeed, it probably will be—that your habit of mouth breathing is due to some nasal obstruc tion. In that case you ought at once to go to a nose specialist for appropriate treatment. That is to say, deep breathing increases the blood's nutritional value, besides strengthening the abdomen RIGHT WAY TO BREATHE . —BY H. ADDINGTON BBUUX- .. f — - crown prince himself calls a criminal and "idiotic*’ war. Over against the “corn-sweats and calamus” advocates of huge battle fleets and armies stands a movement, headed by a number of citizens of high standing, to organize a “League to Enforce Peace." The league includes such names as Mr. Taft, Mr. Lowell of Harvard, Darwin P. Kingsley, Alton B. Parker, and the like. It certainly is not a scheme of wild-eyed dreamers. Such are respectable to a degree. The object of the league is to create a combi nation of nations pledged to arbitration, and against any country that shall begin war without a patient discussion beforehand. The league is going at it in a business-like way, organizing in every state, seeking to include its plank in political platforms, disseminating its literature, and otherwise propagandizing practi cally. “If it were a pestilence instead of a war which lars, by Samuel J. Elder, “that the world strug gled passionately to find safeguards against the recurrence of such a war as the present. The league does not profess to work out all the details of a concert of nations; that will ba the work of time and of many minds. Only one centra! idea is presented. “It it were a pestilence in stead of a war which in one year had killed off several millions of the strongest young men of a generation and dis abled many millins more, the wisdom and science of the age would assuredly devote themselves to finding a remedy, or at least some safeguards. The fact that men are killing each other instead of being killed by disease should stimulate in stead of paralyzing endeavor. Only rewards will sax that nothing can be done about it and that men have always killed each other In wart and always will. Men have learned to suppress vio lence within nations, and must find some way to suppress or at least reduce it between nations,” All of which sounds as if at last we had called in an intelligent doctor and had relegated Aunt Samantha to the kitchen, where she belongs. (Copyright, 1918, by Frank Crane.) four to one hundred or more, and are turned over to the commission men, who own the immense stoek yard bams, covering some twenty-five acres. The buyers, with the exception of those from Europe, are dealers from various small towns and country district* itey buy in lots of twenty or more, take them home and retail them to the farmers, making an average, profit of perhaps 115 or >2O upon mules of the better grades. Thus Atlanta acts as a clearing house through which a large part of the south buys and sells its mules. . In Atlanta the business is carried forward with great directness and upon a high plans of honesty. Every sale is a contest in judgment; but there is no effort to conceal the defects in the mules. If an animal h s a splint or is wind-broken the fact is not con cealed. and a deduction in price made accordingly. There is something of a speculative charanter in the trading, as the value of mules sometimes fluctuates from 5 to 10 per cent in a few months. The glowing importance of the mule to soon in the fact that the average price has increased about 29 per cent in the last ten years. oso The Atlanta live stock business to iarvety tn the hands of a few families, who have been trading horses and mules for generation* The story of one family here, which is prominent to the trade, Is a complete history of the mule business to the south. The great grandfather of the present head of the business owned a big plantation in Georgia, and every year he drove to Atlanta about 400 mules which hs raised or bought from his neighbors. He auctioned them off In the city, and was considered to be doing an enormous business His eon. the grandfather of the contemporary scion, thought the business could bo enlargedbyl reaching a wider market. He formed “Ofpay who wandered all over the south with their droves of mules, selling them to farmers along the wM- In tWs way he disposed of two thousand mules to a year. Then came the railroads, pouring mules into At lanta by the thousand. Any number over four mules tcok a carload rate. It was possible to reach the moot distant farmer in a few hours. So the representative of the third generation sold 80,000 mules in a stogie year and his son, the present owner of the business, has increased it still further. He sometimes has 19.099 mules in his stables at a time—more mules than ate great-grandfather ever saw. _____ Although the horse business has shrunk by compari son with the mule trade, thousands of horses are stlU .old annually in the Atlanta market. and custo“±2 crees that they must always be sold at auction. The horse auctions are perhaps the most picturesque P of the whole business. The buyers form to two long SUTwS, . U. stand, and every one is armed with a wMp «ix fee long. The horse is led down the gauntlet by an rro. All the whips crack, the horse C ‘ V ° rtH ’ the negro swinging and yelling at the hatter. "Five years old and sound and right, and a worker' chants the seller to a tremendous basso. "She’s got • clean white tooth and a fine wind—and the long polo gets the persimmon.” An auctioneer presiding to a sort of pulpit rcoord, the bids, and bellows with tears in hi. voice that ne is being robbed. The owner continues to extol the value of his stock, and the horse is mercilessly whipped up and down the enclousure; they stopped and examined for splints, ring bones, and other minor de feots. The seller, however, quickly resents as a per sonal insult any Investigation of the matter of age. "Aw, why do you want to look at her teethY’ he demands. "Didn’t I say she was five years old?” e e e The closing bid is often surprisingly low. especially on the lighter horses, which would have been to great demand for buggy and saddle before the days of the gasoline engine. The horse has seen the days of his greatest fieri beyond a doubt. Not so the mule. In war as to peace, he Is king of hard laber-and Atlanta is Ma southern capital. and the lungs themselves. As a corrective to shallow breathing .and for hy gienic purposes genera'ly, some deep breathing exer cise may advantageously be taken onee or twice a day. Fisher and Fisk, in their health manual, “Hew to Live,” recommend the following: “A certain oriental deep breathing exercise is partic ularly valuable to insure slowness and evenness of the breath. It consists of pressing a finger on the side of ttte nose, so as to close one nostril, breathtag to through the other nostril, breathing out of the first nostril to the same manner, and then reversing tbs procss* Attention to the slight sound ot the air as it passes through the nose enables one to know whether the breathing is regular or slightly irregular. "Such breathing exercise ean be taken at the rate of three breaths per minute .and the rate gradually reduced until it is only two or even less per minute.” Singing requires deep breathing, and therefore is to be recommended to habitually shallow breather* For the same reason, they are advised to take some mod erate muscular exercise every day. Whatever the correctve means employed, remember that the great alm to be secured is efficient breathing, and that this has as its basic principles breathing through the nose, breathing slowly, and breathing deeply. Learning to breathe through the nose learn also to breathe slowly and deeply. Most people, there ie reason to say, breathe too rap idly and not deeply enough Deep, slow breathing exercises the whole lung, stim ulates the liver, promotes the abdominal circulation, and favorably influences both the blood-pressure and the oxygenation of the blood. (Copyright, 1916, by H. A. Bruce.)
