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4 THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA. 5 MOBTH FOBSTTH ST.— Entered at the Atlanta Postortiee a« Mail Matter o the Second Clans. strssorPTioM price. Twelve months . .40c Six months . 2oc Three months The is published on Tues day and Friday, and is mailed by the shortest route, for early deliver?. •It contains news from all over the world, roug by specie! leased wires into our office. It has a sta of distinguished contributors, with strong depar - ments of special value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffiee. Liberal com mission allowed. Outfit free. Write R- R- BK ' LET. Circulation Manager. The only traveling representatives we have are B F. Bolton. C. C. Coyle. Charles H. Woodliff. • Patten. W. H.<Reinhardt. M H. Bevll and John Mac Jennings We will be responsible only for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. L—-—————————' NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Th* label wed for addreeeing I "nr paper shows the time jeer snbeertpHoe expires. By renewing at l*Mt two weeks be feee the date this label, yoo insure regn.ar serxtee. Tn order! nr narwr cbAaged. t* •ur* to mention your old. •• -11 nei on • mote, please give the roots number. en tw rJ beerfptlMis to begin with back nntub*". •amittaaces should be sent by postal order oe registered “***• Address all orders and notices for this Department to THE ggMI-WKEKI.Y JOURNAL. Atlanta. Ga. Uneasy lies the head of a German chancellor. How Liberty Bond Buyers Will Beat the Kaiser. “Soldiers win battles but wealth wins wars.” •ays the Cobb County Times in urging the peo ple of its district to buy Liberty bonds; and it adds, with equal truth that “the success of a Gov ernment loan during war times means more than a victory on a twenty-mlle front.” The people of Georgia as of the country at large should get this idea vividly in their minds and in their consciences. Those who remain at home, on the farms. Ln the mills and shops and offices and stores, have Just as definite a duty to perform for their country as those in the training camp* at the battle front and on the distant watches of the sea. The fact that they are spared the hardships and perils of the soldier’s life in no wise absolves them from war service; on the con trary, it makes their particular obligation the more imperative. When a million Americans, the flower of the nation’s young manhood, stand ready to give their lives that the country may continue se cure and honored and free, who that is not dead of soul will refuse to support them by every means he can muster? We must support them with our money, whether it be the surplus of an ample income or the savings of a hard-earned wage, if their sacrifices are to be availing. We must raise the second Liberty loan If we are to win the war. We must buy Liberty bonds to the full extent of our ability if we are to prove loyal Americans and loyal Georgians. This service is no less definite and no less impor tant than that of the men under arms. While eco nomic forces always have played a large part and frequently a decisive part in the world’s great wars, in this conflict they are of unprecedented in fluence. In fact this is not so much a war of armies as it is a war of peoples. The outcome depends not slmplv on how many troops and how much ammunition the belligerent camps can hurl, each against the other, but on how much endurance power, how much heart and faith and moral sinew are massed behind the battle fronts. If this were not true, the Kaiser would have won with the first huge roaring flood of steel which he loosed upon Belgium and France. The fact that today he stands balked, his vandal hordes reeling back toward the Rhine, his brutal amoltlon at bay, is due to the steadfast and sacrificial loyalty with which the PEOPLE of the Allied nations have stood behind their men in the trench eg. So will it be the PEO PLE of the United States who will deal the death blow of Kaiserism by stanchly supporting their army and unstintedly pouring their resources, ma terial and moral, into this, the war’s decisive stage. An oversubscription of the second Liberty loan would be indeed a greater victory than If our troops swept forward on a twenty-mlle front, for it would signify a wholehearted American purpose to see the war through to victory no matter the cost or time. And In that invincible purpose, Ger many would read defeat. The Kaiser would under stand at last that he had not only an American «rmy to cope with, but also the Amerian people, hundred million strong. However bold a front he and his Junkers might put on, they would know tn their hearts that they were beaten And the German people would know it If prosperous States ilks Georgia do their full duty, the Liberty loan will be oversubscribed to twice or three times ths sum which the Government ■ska. The agricultural products of the South alone amount this autumn to upwards of six billion dol lar*—enough to absorb two loans like the one now offered. Georgia farms together with the cities and towns are blest with unexampled prosperity. Bountiful crops are selling at record prices. Fac tories are running to the limit of their capacity. Trade to at » golden flood tide. Patriotism and self-interest alike demand that a goodly portion of this wealth be invested in the nation’s cause. Let every Georgian buy Liberty bonds to the extent of his capacity to save, and this good Com monwealth will have struck a telling blow for America, for victory and for peace America is es quick to prepare as she was slow to anger Wheat Week in Georgia. This is Wheat Week tn Georgia. For the next six days and as much longer as may be needful, patriotic farmers will give especial attention to the preparation of the soil for planting at least enough wheat to provide for their own households. Dr. Andrew M. Soule, Federal Food Administrator for the State, says that “from three to five acres properly cultivated should supply the average fam ily of five persons with all the flour necessary.” Evidently there is no need of any rural family in Georgia going beyond its own farm or neighbor hood for the staff of life. But our planters can do a great deal better than meet merely their own needs. They can raise wheat enough to reduce by many thousands and. tens-of-thousands of bushels Georgia’/ demand upon the granaries of the West; and by so doing they will render a distinct na tional service as well profit themselves. A woman is as old as she looks: a man as he is prosperous. THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16. 1917. The Southeastern l air. The auspicious opening of the 1917 Southeast ern Fair accords well with the character and mer its of that distinctive exposition. No measure of popular approval or material success could exceed the deserts of this enterprise. The preceding Fairs at Lakewood have been highly creditable, but they were merelj’ foreshadowings of the one now in progress. It is doubtful, indeed, that any State or any section in the entire I nion ever be fore staged an exposition so varied in its products and so rich both in entertainment and instruction. The agricultural exhibits are a revelation of what the farmers of the Southeast are doing to promote national prosperity and win the war. For years past the production of foodstuffs has been making notable headway in Georgia and neighbor ing States, but the results of the 1917 campaign to this end. as witnessed in the Southeastern Fair, are nothing short of astounding. Under the stim ulus of war time necessity and patriotism our ag riculture has made greater strides, as far as food crops are concerned, during the past twelve months than formerly it would have made in a decade. This is a vital part of Southern history and of American history, for it means new strength, new freedom, new service. As an exposition of these achievements alone, the Southeastern Fair would be broadly and intensely interesting. But in addition to its wealth of agricultural displays, the Fair presents a livestock and cattle show which seldom has been equaled anywhere in America. It presents an automobile and indus trial show which of itself would be well worth a long journey to see. And besides these and divers other educational features, the Fair offers a con tinuous round of well chosen and wonderfully varied amusements. Coming in the wake of the South's most golden harvests and at the height of far-showering prosperity, the Southeastern Fair should and doubtless will draw a record-breaking attendance throughout the week. / Those German plotters don’t seem to have even a reading acquaintance with Sherlock Holmes. More German Perfidy. . During the last three years Americans have be come so accustomed to German trickery, treachery and trouble-making propensities—ever holding fore most the Lusitania, Belgium and Serbia —that it takes something more than ordinary barbaric grossness to arouse even a ripple of excitement. The kultur of Germany has inspired most every thing their criminally elastic consciences cau abide or murderous brains evolve until nowadays any German crime must be particularly heinous to command more than passing attention. But quite recently there came to light another glaring instance of German duplicity as directed toward their former ally, Italy. It is mentioned here only because it is in perfect keeping with Teu ton crimes the world-over. Italy declared war on Austria in May, 1915, but it was not until August, 191 G, that she di rected hostilities against Germany. In June, 1915, Italian mine-sweepers found a barrier of twelve mines near an Italian naval base. These were cleared away but a few days later a similar bar rier was found in the same spot. These mines could only have been placed by a submarine and a close watch was kept for the undersea boat. In March of last year a mine sank the hostile craft in shoal water and hence it was no great trick to have a good look at her. The investigation showed the boat to be the U-C 12, built at the Weser yards by a German flrm. The log of the undersea craft showed that she was towed through the Keil canal in May, 1915, and immediately began the dirty work of laying mines in Italian waters, meanwhile ex changing the German flag for Austrian colors. The log also revealed the interesting fact that the ship carried rifles to an African port for the rebels against Italy. At peace with the United States this modern butcher plotted to have Japan and Mexico make war upon this country. At peace with Italy this nation of kultur lays death-dealing mines in Ital ian harbors. And still there are a few people who are outraged because the United States and the Entente Powers are determined to have done with Prussianism for all time. ♦ j The kaiser should recall that, not even Napo leon could carry out a winter campaign in Russia. Think of the veterans’ reunions in store for this country? Where the War Will Be Won. What has become of the old-fashioned opinion, held by some high strategists both In the Allied and the Teuton camps, that the war would be decided in the East? Time and again during the first two years of the conflict events lent a color of likelihood to that theory. Had the Entente attack on the Dardanelles succeeded, or the Ger man thust into the Balkans been carried far enough to become a menace to British power in the Levant, or If the advantages which the Rus sians, first under Grand Duke Nicholas and later under Bruslloff, gained against Austria had been duly sustained, or if the Teuton drive upon Ru mania had expanded into the far-continued cam paign which once was predicted, or if the Allied army based at Salonikt had carried out the often rumored plan of recovering Serbia and pressing on into Austria—had any of these possibilities materialized at a favorable conjunction of circum stances, the prediction that the war would be decided in the East might have been fulfilled. Rut all the elements in the present situation point to the Western front as the decisive field. Particularly does this appear true since the Rus sian disorganization. The Allies now must look to their Western forces, along with those of valor ous Italy, to strike the telling blows; and Ger many must look to her Western lines for the de fense to which she is reduced. It is there that the major strength of both sides will be mustered and by reason of Russia’s present, inaction Germany can do a good deal of effective concentrating. It is there, too. that American troops will march for the great, victory-bringing blow against Kaiserism. We rather agree with General Pershing that the American soldiers should use pistols and rifles as well as bayonets and clubs. If American preparations are so effective, im agine what active participation in the war would do. ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY —< —. By H. Addington Bruce —•>. — IN his remarkable work, ‘‘lnstincts of the Herd in Peace and war”—to my mind one of the most stimulating of the many books grow ing out of the great war—Dr. W. Trotter makes this statement: ‘‘When the twenty years just passed came to be looked back upon from the distant future, it is probable that their chief claim to interest will be that they saw the birth of the science of abnormal psychology.” At first thought this may be deemed a singular, even a preposterous, assertion. Hut consider. Until abnormal psychology came into being, the world was staggering along under a heavy and seemingly irremovable burden of vice, crime, in efficiency, pauperism, insanity, and nervous dis ease. As civilization grew more complex, the burden steadily became heavier, in spite of drastic laws and earnest humanitarian zeal. To many it seemed—to many it still seems — absolutely impossible to find a means of relief from a situation threatening civilization itself with collapse. ' ‘There is nothing that can be done,” was the despairing cry. “Mankind is degenerating. W 6 can only struggle impotently till the end comes.’ In opposition to this pessimistic attitude, ab normal psychology holds out a new and glowing promise. At the outset of his labors the abnormal psy chologist said to himself: “Vice, crime, inefficiency, pauperism, insanity, and nervous disease obviously represent, not mere ly imperfections in human behavior, but imper fections in human thought. ~ “If the vicious man did not think wrongly, he would not behave as he does. If the criminal’s inode of thinking were not unsound he would not steal and kill. “Likewise with the inefficient, the paupers, the insane, and the nervous. Let us find out why these think wrongly, and perhaps we can help them to think aright. At all events we can surely help others to avoid following in their steps.” Then began, for the first time, scientific study of individuals who think, hence behave, abnormal ly. Already many a discovery of inestimable im portance to mankind has flowed from this study. Foremost among these discoveries, beyond any question, is the bringing to the full light of scien tific recognition the basic truth that the great de termining factors in adult behavior are the en vironment and training of early childhood. “Mankind is not degenerating,” the abnormal physchologist proclaims. “But men are not being trained in the first years of life as they ought to be trained. “They are not being trained to reason, they are not being trained in emotional control. Train them sooner, train them more intensively, give them in their first years a really wholesome en vironment, and you need have little fear as to their futures. “It is in earl?' education that the solution of the problems of vice, crime, inefficiency, pauperism, insanity, and nervous disease is chiefly to- be found.” Rapidly evidence is accumulating to bear out this hopeful view. Later years, I personally am persuaded, will witness its complete vindication. And with its vin dication all will appreciate the soundness of Dr. Trotter’s prophecy: “When the twenty years just past come to be looked back upon from the distant future, it is probable that their chief claim to interest will be that they caw the birth of the science of abnormal psychology.” In fine, I believe with Dr. Trotter that abnor mal psychology is opening up a wonderful era in the evolution of the human race. - ENVY 4— By Dr. Frank Crane ENVY is the unpleasant feeling 1 have when I learn of another’s success. Why it exists I don’t know. No explana tion explains. The most satisfactory explanation is that it is a remnant of the beast nature left in us, as yet un ellminated by evolution, but that is a poor one, too, because a beast only feels bad when another beast secures what he (the first beast) wants, whereas “man, proud man” has a grouch when he sees you having what he does not want at all. Envy is the shadow cast by success. Whoever succeeds angers his fellows who did not succeed. The ordinary pedestrian hates the man in the automobile; it irritates him to have to stop to let the car go by, or to be tooted at when he is in the road. Hating Rockefeller. Carnegie, and Morgan is a national pastime. We have nothing against them. Only they’re rich. And we are not. Os course we don’t admit it. We deny the al legation and defy the alligator. Rut the little grudglet is in our hearts just the same. Why couldn’t I have been rich, instead of those men? Why couldn’t I have all that money, instead of Rarney Raruch? There’s a little hurty spot in the heart of every plain woman when she sees the Lillian Russell, Rillie Rurke sort of person. Why do we love gossip? Why do our ears cock up when somebody says in a low tone of voice, “Did you hear the latest scandal about the angel Gabriel?” If anybody’s up, why do we want to take him down? Do we want to throw insinuations at any one who is conspicuous for the same reason boys like to shoot at railway signs? Have you heard that about Geraldine Farrar? Why, buzz buzz buzz. And the?’ say that President Wilson has buzz buzz buzz. buzz. And the preacher, he was actually seem to buzz buzz buzz buzz. Isn’t it dreadful? And doesn’t it taste good, you low-life? I like human nature, but it has surely one rot ten spot In it. It is the envy spot. I cannot fathom for-the life of me why T should be pleasantly affected by another's misfor tune. It must be an unassimilated chunk of orig inal sin left in me. Rut envy is the price of fame. With all its drawbacks we love conspicuity. We’d rather be the hatee than the haters. Mieiix vaut envle que pltie, say the French— better be envied than pitied. T suppose envy is pride, reserved. And pride in any shape is detestable. I suppose it is selfish ness. instinctively functioning. 1 love the spot-light, T want the front page, I want to be ft. look at me everybody—so this little squeaking mouse of an egotistic me goes about begging attention from men and angels. There are some persons who deny they ever have any such feeling. I'd deny it myself, if you asked me. Rut. heaven forgive us* the little nasty streak is in us all. and if anybody knows any kind of pat ent medicine, pill, or violet ray that will eliminate it. let him now speak. (Copyright. 1917,. by Frank Crane.) QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES The small henpecked man. whose wife had sent him to enlist, was being overhauled by the army doctor, getting more and more nervous as the ex amination proceeded. “Have you led a fast kind of life at all?” said the doctor at last. “Gone In much for dissipation or anything of that sort?” The little man hesitated a moment, then re plied, in a thin, piping voice: “I—l sometimes smoke a cigarette.” SCIENCE MADE POPULAR —By Frederic J. Haskin WASHINGTON, D. C., October 12. —Every day dozens of sightseers visit the national museum. Usually, they Intend to spend only a few minutes on their way from the capltol to the treasury—just to see if it compares favor ably with the picture on the postcard—and they end by staying hours. For here, at last, science has condescended to speak the language of the peo ple. At last natural history has been made natural. * * ♦ Instead of stiff, stuff?' figures on square pedes tals. there are life-like animal groups posed amid their native scenery. An animal is shown tread ing the same kind of ground he trod in real life— sometimes the actual ground itself, which has been gathered and shipped in with the specimen. The bushes, branches and stones that were about him in his native habitat are about him. In short, the visitor does not have to read a card to know that an animal is native to Arctic regions or the tropics. If you observe very closely the visitors mean dering through the animal collections you will find that while a few of them do not read the cards at tached to the cases, the majority of them do. Their curiosity is aroused by the various details pre sented in each group. And this is the reward of science for having made itself popular. Instead of helping to educate a few students and interest a few professors, it is helping to educate the masses. This is the triumph of the new taxidermy. * * • The new art of taxidermy was not solved, how ever. without a strong protest from the scientific conservatives. For years a taxidermist was little more than an upholsterer. He stuffed his animals with straw, stuck a couple of glass eyes in each head, and considered his work finished. It was enough to know that any scientist visiting the museum would recognize the species. Then a few naturalists began to enter the profession. To them the ordinary stuffed animal was revolting, and the?' began to apply their skill in taxidermy towards achieving more natural effects. ♦ • • There is some doubt as to who made the first animal group, but it is certain that the stir it caused was not less than that caused by the first Cubist picture. Now the newer taxidermj’ is practiced all over the country, although some museums still cling to the old methods. The modern taxidermist is not an uph’olsterer but a sculptor, and many things besides. He is an anatomist, a naturalist, and sometimes an explorer and collector as well. A Smithsonian taxidermist is now in Australia gath ering specimens, which he will later mount. • * « The taxiderm? work contiected with the na tional museum is carried on in a large two-story shed behind the Smithsonian building. Most peo ple mistake it for a stable. Inside, no effort has been made to maintain the careful neatness of all the other government scientific quarters. The floor is splattered with white plaster; cans of paint and paint brushes are strewn about the floor, and the walls are decorated wnth all sorts of skins and plaster casts, from monkeys to sea cows. Strapped to the ceiling is a California whale fourteen feet long. The other day a young taxidermist was at work on the plaster cast of a big wolf, whose beautiful, yellowish-white skin hung on a rack above him. On a table was Its skull, containing a set of teeth that had once been the terror of a certain part of Montana. • * ♦ This animal had been captured only after a long and arduous campaign waged against him by Montana horse-owners, whose stock he had killed In large numbers. For months he matched his cunning against the craftiness of ranchmen, and always won. In vain did they set traps for him. He could not be induced to touch poisoned meat, and he could sense an iron trap a mile off, having once lost part of his foot in one. Rut success made him careless, and eventually the ranchers trl- AMERICANS IN FRANCE—By Herbert Corey a MERICAN FIELD HEADQUARTERS, Sept. 1. —American soldiers in France are under *■ going every experience of actual war except killing and being killed. They are almost ready to go forward to the trenches. Their officers hope this will not be long delayed. Rain fell last night. These limestone hills of France were streaming with water. The main roads leading up to the remote tableland on which one organization was at work were slimy on the surface, and the underbody had been torn to pieces by the heavy carts. The trials branching off from these roads are hardly distinguishable by day. Here and there sticks have been erected. Between each pair of sticks a tap of white cloth has been tied. All day long the trenches on the top of these rolling hills had been held by one unit. The pre sumption was that they were under continuous fire. The trenches are real trenches —identical in every respect with those in which they will live later on. There are dugouts in them thirty feet deep. Sometimes these are connected by tunnels. In front of the advanced line are the wires and the listening posts. In the trenches are the machine gun emplacements and the ammunition magazines and the telephone system. There is a gridiron of trenches, just as on the front. When darkness came the men in the advanced line were on the alert. Somewhere out in front there was a prowling and dangerous theoretical enemy. The enemy took kindly to the job. If one of the enemy men managed to crawl up to the advanced line, under the wire, through the mud, under the soaking rain, past the listening posts, he thereby “got a horse” on the unfortunates in that line. The enemy hoped tthe officers would speak as unkindly to “them fatheads” as they deserved. He chuckled as he ran down hill to try it over., LIKE REAL WAR. The enemy was aided by the veritable shell holes scattered about. It is true these shell holes had been excavated in the story ground by a pick, but they are perfect duplicates of the real thing. The one thing that was missing were those shape less bundles of sodden cloth that once were men, which one sees in No Man’s Land at the front. The star shells occasionally shed a greenish light over the scene. Behind them the seventy-fives spoke oc casionally. with blank shells, it is true, but the noise aided the youngsters to Imagine themselves at real war. At 2 o’clock in the morning rne men in the vil lage la-bas were turned out of their warm blankets and sent forward to relieve the men in the front trench. They swattered along the streaming roads. They felt their way over the hills, along the trails that are dim in daylight, aided now and then by the strips of white linen tied to sticks, and which gave them their directions. The men who became the new enemy, in order to let the old enemy go home and get dry and warm and rested up, were told to “dig themselves in.” They advanced across the field and “dug in” at the word of command, and held there until a pale and sodden light ap peared upon the hills. This is hard and intensive training. So far as actual discomforts go—barring those added lux uries of war which craw) by night—the Americans are undergoing just what the men are on the front. The one thing missing is death and dismember ment As yet the men are remarkably chipper and bright. They take everything as a game which must be well played, not only for the game’s sake, but because the punishment for not playing the game well will later on be something they prefer not to think about. They are cheerful and jolly in their quarters. As yet no "grouch” worth the name has been heard of. They play tag with huge roars of laughter, tag being one of the means the French use to compel their men to speed and agility, and taken over bv us. They have no means of amusement worth sneaking of, but they manage to keep themselves amused after a fashion. The net result of this training is that their umphed, even as they triumphed over Mr. Seaton Thompson’s “King Lobo.” One evening a hunter dragged his carcass into the village amid the ac clamations of the relieved populace, and Mon tana’s reign of terror was over. * ♦ • Soon this wolf, in all the ferociousness of his ferocious personality, will be behind a glass case in the national museum, causing nervous chills to wander up and down the spines of little boys and girls. For so life-like are the figures produced by the new taxidermy that visitors to the museum never fail to cast a few awed glances at some of the specimens. The other da?' a little girl grabbed her mother’s hand as they stood gazing at the group of Roosevelt lions. She knew they weren’t real, she said, but she was glad the glass case was there. * * * The young taxidermist who is making this wolf first made a clay model of one he observed in the national zoo. Rut it did not suit him. It showed the wolf with his head pointed in a mild, inquir ing attitude not at all in keeping with his Mon tana history. So the taxidermi» r -nade another model, which shows him prowling along with his head lowered and his teeth bared in a snarl. The teeth effect will be procured by using the actual skull, and a bit of Montana scenery will be repro duced as his background. ♦ • • In ignominious proximit?' to the skin of this erstwhile terrible character on the rack in the Smithsonian taxidermy studio is a pigskin, which is the next in order to be mounted. “The pig will be much easier to mount than the wolf,” said the taxidermist, “for I have his bones.” And he held up a vertebrae a yard long, which was once the pig’s back, and a few miscellaneous bones which doubtless once performed the duty of legs. "All I shall have to do,” he continued, ’ls to put this skeleton together, cover it with a plaster cast and glue the skin on.” ♦ • • When asked what the new taxidermy did when it wanted eyes for animals, he went to a chest of drawers in one corner of the studio and pulled out several small drawers. They were full of little compartments containing glass eyes. Occasionally, a manufactured eye would not do and it was neces sarj- to paint an eye and then cover it with glass, he said. Then he held up a box of black-headed pins of the type popular with ladles who search for notion-counter bargains. “For rats and mice,” he said. In one of the compartments were a few glass eyes with long narrow pupils. These were for deer. • • • The foliage, shrubbery and soil that make the background of so many groups in the museum are not manufactured in this studio. Usually these "props” are sent in from the scene of the hunt, or else the?’ are made In wax and painted by a woman expert who is employed by the Smithsonian for that purpose. The latter work is done so cleverly that the visitor rarely suspects the use of wax. In the museum, for example, there is a group of moose in the midst of small trees. Since these moose live chiefly on the young succulent branches of such trees, one of the group is shown with a branch clinched firmly betwen a set of large white teeth. The whole thing is so marvelously executed that you can almost see the branch moving. • * * One of the most Interesting groups in the mu seum is that of the East African water buffalo, pro cured on the Roosevelt expedition to Africa. There are several buffalo In the group, some of which stand six-feet high amid tropical underbrush, with srow-white cow-herons perched on their backs. This sight is so unusual that everyone always stops to read the card to one side of the case. Tt explains that the cow-herons have accompanied the buffaloes through the bushes in order to harvest the grass hoppers and insects aroused by the passage of ths beasts through the undergrowth. physical condition leaves nothing to be desired. They march tirelessly, they are hard as steel rivets, and they eat prodigiously. Their officers feel the time is nearing when they will be ready for the first touch of the trenches. The fear is that the repetition of these harmless exercises will become monotonous to them, so they will grow careless and unobservant. They will go through their work without giving thought to it, not knowing what their first trench tour will teach them, that every action is of infinite importance. z “The American does not excel in obedience or in attention to detail,” said one of our officers. “No men could behave better than our men. but they do not yet realize that if they advance two yards when they are told to advance one yard, that extra yard may bring death to some of them. They do not realize that in following a barrage fire they must follow at the pace ordered, and not at the pace they like better. Only a touch of the trench will bring these things home.” No indication has been given as yet when they will be sent forward. That is a matter which hangs on broader issues. These men may be made over into veterans for the training of their comrades who are on the w’ay, or the “blooding,” may be de ferred until there is an American army here that is real in numbers and equipment as well as In spirit«• and condition only. Whatever the decision may be. there is confidence among men and officers it will be a wise one. HIGH POTASH-BEARING SLATES RE CENTLY DISCOVERED IN GEORGIA By W. S. McCallie, State Geologist A slate deposit has recently been discovered m Georgia by the state geological survey, which seems to be an excellent raw material for the ex traction of potash. The deposit referred to occurs near White’s Station, Bartow county, ten miles north of Cartersville, where it forms a belt at least six miles long, a quarter of a mile or more wide and fully 300 feet thick. The remarkable feature of this slate is its high potash content. A large number of samples taken from different points along the outcropping show more than 9 per cent potash, which is from two to four times the amount found in common slate. Mr. Shearer, assistant state geologist, who has re cently made a microscopic study of this slate, finds that it is made up largely of sericite and feldspar, two of our most common potash-bearing minerals. The slate is of a light-gray color, comparatively free from iron, has an excellent cleavage, and oth erwise possesses all the qualities of a first-class roofing slate. The unusually high potash contents of this slate, together with proximity to transportation, uniformity of composition, favorable conditions for mining and almost inexhaustible supply seem to offer more favorable conditions for the extraction of potash from silicates than any potash-bearing silicates heretofore discovered. The chemical composition of this slate is shown by the following analysis made in the laboratory of the state geological survey: Analysis of slate from Yancey property: Silica. 54.66; alumina. 26.14; ferric oxide, 3.28; ferrous oxide, 3.17: magnesia. 3.09; lime, .00; soda, 1.08; potash. 9.39; ignition. 3.51; mdiu ture. .14; carbon dioxide, .00; titanium dioxide, 1.01; phosphorus pentoxide." .00; sulphur trioxide, .00; sulphur (S>, .10; manganous oxide, .00; ba rium oxide, .00. Total 99.53. Bernstorff sent some of his plots out of the country in a hogshead of tobacco, probably on the assumption that they would go up in smoke, anyway.