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THE ATLAJSTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NEWS) .'OHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Published Every Afternoon, (Except Sunday) By THE CEORGIAN COMPANY. At 25 West Alabama St.. Atlanta.' Os. Subscription Rates: (toe Tear Pit Month Z.Bn Three Months 1.75 By Carrier, re'r"Weei“;"".".‘!I» .» Telephones eonneetlnf nil depart* raent*. Lone durance termlnali. reccntatlrea for alt territory out Georgia. Chicago office ...Tribune Building New York office .Potter Itnlldlng If yon hare any tronble jrctttnr TUB GEORGIAN A.\ v n NBWl telephone the circulation department and bare It promptly remedied. Telephones: Bell 4927 main. Atlanta 4401. It ta desirable that all communica tions Intended for pnbllcntlon In TUB GEORGIAN AND NEWS be limited to worde In length. It Is Imperative that they be signed, as an evidence of food faith. Rejected manuscripts will cot be returned unless stamps are aent for tba purpose. TUB GEORGIAN AND NEWS prints no nnctenn or objectionable ad* vertislng. Neither does It print whisky or any liquor ads. OCR PLATFORM: The Georgian and News stands for Atlanta's owning Its awn gaa and electric light plants. with a prodt to the city., Tbl should be done at once. The Georgian nod News believes that If street rail* - t If street ways can be operated successfully by “ — — Is Buropeso cities, as they are, there I can be done now, and It may be some years before we are ready for so Mg ah undertaking. fltlll 'Atlanta should aet its fact lo that direction Persons leaving the city can havo Tho Georgian and News mailed to them regularly by send ing their order to The Georgian office. Changes of address will be made as often as desired. Eamuel Inman Finds His Work. It Is a matter of peculiar gratlflca- tion to the thousands of friends of Mr. Samuel Inman that he Is giving the vigor and Interest of his moro mature years to the great question of educa tion, male and female. In the Btatc. Mr. Inman Is a figure dear and hon ored among the people of Atlanta and of Georgia. He has been called the first cltlsen of Atlanta, and there nro multitudes of noble actions In tho wake of hla useful and gentlo life which Justify that proud and noble ap pellation. Settled In life beyond the necessity of an active prosecution of his own affslrs. In perfect health, tilth blame less years behind him and a beautiful character budded upon his kindliness and philanthropy of living, there could l>e no nobler cause In which this no- ble cltlsen could serve the state he loves, and the state which honors him, than In helping with all his sound sense, with all his broad philanthropy, and with all his gentle tact and kindliness to Inspire and to help In the direction of the educational life and progress of the state of Georgia. We believe that If a ballot of that great host of Georgians who call them selves Sam Inman's friends could be taken tomorrow, or today, that the ballot would bo unanimous that ho has found his work among the youth of Georgia. And we are very eure that what his bands find to do In this great and no ble cause, be will do with his might, faithfully, gently and generously to the end. The chances are that we shall have some spring next summer at least. The child Is the future citizen, nnd the educational conference Is the forerunner of the better state. How good it Is to see the fair El- berta blushing rosily over the funeral notices preached above her In the early spring! . Has Congressman Grlggi deserted Atlanta? The light of his counte nance and the warmth of his smile have not Illumined the Capital City In many moons. Senator Clay's prostration with the grip Is robbing him and the spring platforms of some charming mutual reminiscences. The letter of the editor of The Georgian printed In The New York World of Monday was sent In re sponse to a telegram from The World asking specifically for a further elab oration of the Chattanooga proposi tion without regard to apace. The World Is la the ablest and foremost of the independent Democratic pa per! of the country, and Its courtesy and catholic fairness are appreciated here and elsewhere. The revival of the citizen will be a natural consequence of the reor ganization of parties.. The Presbyterians and Harmony are having a historic tussle in Bir mingham. Here's to bafmony, which *" fi” mesne discounts our loyalty to THE EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE VITAL. Georgia has rarely bad a more significant and Important meeting than the conference of prominent Georgian! which gathers on Friday to discuss the vital topic of education. The practical spirit of this practical and effecUve age has come at last to grapple the great question of education In a practical way, and whereas we have heretofore been accustomed to confine our Interest In educational matters to a few platitude* upon public occasions, and to . relegate this great cause to our handful of teachers, and school commis sioners, It has como now to bo recognised as a vital If not tbo most vital question in this republic. And In this high conception, the progressive public spirit of this ago Is beginning to approach It with the seriousness and deliberate vigor which Its Importance demands. Here, for Instance, on Friday are fifty leading citizens of Georgia who have been carefully selected, and who after somo weeks of due de liberation and study have come together to gltrp, through the newspa pers' and through printed reports, to tho state legislature and to the peoplo of Georgia, their matured and thoughtful views upon the all- around development of our Georgia youth. Tho occasion Is one of vast Importance. Every father and every mother In this Empire 8tate Is an Interested auditor, either by ear or by tho "hearing of tho eye,” to the deliberations held at the state capital, at the Kimball house and In the Chamber of Commerce. Friday is most distinctly "Educational Day” In Atlanta, and the whole progressive spirit of education In this progressive state should rally to do It honor. There Is a program at the eapltol In the morning, a program at the luncheon ||lvon by the Chamber of Commerce at noon, and another pro gram In the evening In the parlors of the Kimball bouse—all filled by strong and earnest men and women of the state. Surely, In this grand abd thoughtful symposium of the vital Geor gians of today, we should receive a forward pulse toward better methods and larger liberality, both In conception among our people and In appro priation among our legislators for the higher and the elementary branches of education In the state. Education holds the key to the tremendous future that Is developing before this people. Day by day as we measure In comparison the In terest and liberality of other states, we must be quickened through all the veins of Georgia's life and patriotism to a larger and a more vigor ous treatment of this vital question at home. “SINGLE SHOTTING” THE- VITAL ISSUE. The Savannah Press Bnd The Macon Telegraph, discarding the has ty and Intemperate and adopting the more deliberate and thoughtful form of discussion, now complain that The Georgian and Its editor are concentrated upon the one Idea of tho "regulation of predatory wealth,” while they, The Press and The Telegraph, are thoroughly Im pressed with the fact that there are other Issues which dlvldo the two political parties and the two men who are the chief figures in each of them. This position state* clearly tho difference between The Georgian and Its contemporaries. It Is at last a difference In degree rather than In fact Wo recognize fully here the existence of other Issues beside the control of predatory wealth and the regulation of the railroads. But we recognize no Issue that Is so pressing and ao vital In this particular era of our politics. Wo are "slnglo shotting” this Idea because It overshadows at this particular period all other issues and questions which divide the two parties. In the economic process of the last two decades, there have grown In these United States a series of enormous corporations and several colossal combinations of business Interests whose Increasing power over prices, over polities and over legislation have come to be a real menace to tbo country. Twenty-five years ngo, tho Interest of political parties might have well been divided upon the other Issues which The Press and The Tele graph describe. At that time and In that more tranquil period It might have been wise and politic to draw the lines and form tho ranks of par ty upon the Issue of the tariff, public Improvements, enlargement of territory and the questions of labor and of capital. These questions still exist, and they are each of them of an Im portance which no man Is disposed to deny. But no thoughtful man In this age will refuse to concede that steadily and remorselessly the aggression of tbo corporations and of or ganized wealth expressed In railroads. In mergers and In the traits have come to bo the supreme menace to popular government and the su preme Issue In American politics. The other questions are not dead. They afe simply subordinate. This question may not bo always a* pressing as It Is today, but for tho present at least It Is urgent, menacing and supreme. It Is great enough and vital enough nhd urgent enough to justify the post ponement of other questions while wo deal with It. Wo believe that In their honest moments (and they have many) the' editors of The Press and of The Telegraph would conccdo the fact that If we are “Blnglo shotting one Issue” In this period of our economic history, that we have selected that Issue which Is tho largest, tho most dangerous and tho moat pressing of them all. Wo bcllovc. too, that The Press and The Telegraph, dealing fairly with that great "patient” which we political doctors call the people, would Indorse tho proposition that among soveral ailments we should treat first and moat absorbingly that ono which moat seriously threatens the llfo of the sufferer. If a human frame should bo afflicted with fe ver and a broken limb or a gunsbot wound any wlso physician would set tho limb or treat the wound with surgery while ho permitted the other malady to wait until tho urgent evil was relieved. A human body trou bled with consumption and cholera at the samo time would be approach ed by a physician with reference to the rapid and aggressive disease while ho deferred an especial attention to the moro deliberate malady, for a later time. And so It Is the Idea of Tho Georgian that In the order of their Im portance wo should first take hold of this great eating cancer upon the body of the people and cut It out of our economic life, before we proceed to give constitutional treatment to the other chronic maladies which afflict the body politic. This, In a nutshell, Is the position that we take. We believe It to be founded and based upon reason and common sense, and we think that tho people In the main heartily agree with it. There Is another motive In Tho Georgian's position to which wo direct the attention of our contemporaries. These other questions which they press and which they so ardently emphasize at thlz time nro utterly handicapped In their treatment and remedy by the disordered and divided condition of tho parties which champion their several sides. How are wo going to get a divided and factional democracy to treat these Issues of the tariff, currency, states' rights and territorial enlargement until wo can bring thoso partlea to gether in a coherent and united state? We ask our friends at The Telegraph and of Tho Press not to forget that the other great central object of tho Chattanooga proposi tion was to bring about a condition in which these parties could be re formed and reorganized along honest and definite lines to champion, and to carry the opposing theories of the government. We have not been able for years to present a Democratic platform which carried any great majority of real Democratic sentiment behind It because either Belmont bad triumphed or Ilryan had prevailed and the Democrats who ought to be Republicans, or tho Democrats who followed the old lines have alternately held sway to the discontent and discomfiture of the other faction. It Is so with the Republican party, but more so now than ever be-' fore, and so much so that perhaps the great bnd of reorganizing par ties upon definite lines offers the great and not the lesser reason for tho proposition which The Georgian has advanced. Forty per cent of the Republican party In New York city voted for Hcarat In the municipal election. Nobody knows wbat largo per cent of the Democratic party voted for Roosevelt, in the last general elec tion. . Tho hopeless factions In eich party absolutely demand some op portunity for a complete and wholesome reorganization, and If any man will offer to the public any sensible and promising formula other than an era of good feeling, by which these factions in cither party can be let loose to re align themselves behind the principles In which they really believe, we should be glad to bear It. . hind theories of government and principles In which It actually be lieves. The whole'integrity of the electorate depends upon Its ability to do this thing. The habit which w6 have had for years of voting for things in which we do not believe, and for leaders for whom we do not care, simply because a caucus or a convention of tho accidental majori ty- of our own party has decreed it. Is demoralizing to the Integrity of tho ballot and to the real principle of representative government. Tho opportunity for a new deal for the Individual citizen with his Individual ballot Is a second supreme and compelling reason for one great "era of good feeling” In which all party lines may be for a tlmo completely obliterated In order that they may be no more definitely and more honestly drawn. After an era like this the Democratic party might be so reorgan ized as to call to Its ranks every real Democrat in America. The Re publican party of vested rights and privileges could be so reorganized as to rally all Its honest and sincere advocates behind Its leaders. And for the future we should proceed according to the convictions of the voters rather than by the compulsion of bis ballot under party cau cuses or political conventions. , Here, then, are two Issues Instead of one which we "single shot” as compelling In their appeal for the temporary obliteration of party lines in order to re-mark and re-deflne the honest and opposing theo ries of the government. LaFoIlette will be a fine "runner up” to the finals of the presidential tourney. The “Southern Candidate” Is the the most hopeful light on the whole horizon of Democracy. The paragrapher and the kingdom are still far apart. The Joint weight of our governor and our governor-elect ought to de light the fancy of Grover Cleveland, who would have probably "turned down” Tllden and Alex Stephens on size. LET tHE PEOPLE HAVE A SAY-80 IN EVERYTHING. Editor of The Atlanta Georgian. I am one of many women who sub scribe for your paper to have the great pleasure of reading the finest editorials emanating from a Georgian's brain. i find myself embarrassed by my riches In this respect when I attempt to cull the very best chi write you concerning them. Las Thursday, May IS, your editorial 'Link Charter Revision to Greater At lanta” was just too good for anything. I do hope you will keep up a racket along that lino, for we want that old charter done away with. "The Noble 49" came very near granting the petition of the women who asked that the women who own prop erty should be permitted to vote In At lanta and bogged them to recommend It. If the women of Atlanta had munic ipal suffrage, os the women of Kan sas have, the licensed liquor traffic would have to go out of business as It Is going In Kansas, driven out by the votes of women. We hope Mr. Maddox will be a mem ber of the charter revision committee of Greater Atlanta, for he Is our friend. Mr. Ellis Is not so we wouldn’t vote for him for constable or any other office for that matter. "Let U* Have Fewer Secret Sessions of Public Bobles” was the next editorial to strike my fancy. You expressed tn your own Inimitable way my Ideas on that subject and I Indorse every word of It. Why should a few men. ‘‘servant* of tho people," meet secretly and elect other men to positions on the police board, board of education, commis sioner of publlo works, city engineer, school superintendent, etc.? If per mitted once or twice there 'will be no end to It. The men people are not weary of voting, they like It and- wish to vote for those they wleh to serve them. It Is natural for Americans to love to vote and (that Is the reason so many women waht to vote—they take after their (laddies, don’t you see? Besides all that we women want to see election days come oftener than they do, for the abominable licensed saloons are closed, and our men folks cannot get drunk sq easily as they did when Atlanta was a wide-open city and every election day was a horror. Tho women were compelled to stay at home to save themselves from Insults of va rious kinds generally offered by "men In liquor.” We like the change, Mr. Editor, and our eyes are opened to the necessity for many other reforms. For Instance, we see that the bal lot Is a wonderful power, nnd should not be Intrusted to drunken, irresponsi ble people of any color or condition. I was delighted to read In last Saturday's Georgian how the working men (may God bless them, every one!), were protesting to council condemning the plan to effect official* by that body, and that the railway employees held a meeting and pledged themselves not to vote for men supporting that plan. Those men had tho courage of their convictions, and they know that the ballot le the right preservation of all rights. How happy they should be In knowing they hud such a powerful weapon with which to defend them selves and their Interests. They know that tho average council man and politician love ballots as well or better thun a goat loves tin cans, and other things he has no business to handle, and they also know that with that powerful weapon, which belongs only to free men, they can forco their ■ervants to do their will. We have ell been taught from In fancy that our republican government, national, state and municipal. Is a gov ernment of the people, for the people, by the people, with the best of the peo ple (women) left out. When the blessed forty-nine (49) get to work on the charter revision busi ness? let us hop* that they will see the utter absurdity of taxing women who own property without granting them the power of exercising their undoubt ed right to vote for men (and women) who will carry out their wishes In an open-handed way, without star cham ber proceedings of any kind. Finally, let ine tell you that the ma jority of women want a perfected Australian ballot, the initiative and referendum, woman suffrage and all the other good things women should havo had a hundred years ago. And we ex pect you, Mr. Editor, to fight our bat tles for us, for you arc one of the few true knights of the twentieth century which Victor Hugo predicted would be the woman's century. Help us to come Into our own. We are a feeble folk. Very truly, mary l. mclendon, President Georgia Woman Suffrage As sociation. Atlanta, May 20. put up Roosevelt and make hla election unanimous has this significance: Clews, a Republican, Is a Well street banker, and thus belongs to tbo element which Is popularly supposed to have pro scribed the president. Here Is a fact of much greater sig nificance: Many stalwart Republican papers, situated as far apart geographi cally as The Newark Advertiser, The Pittsburg Gasette (the oldest 'paper west of the Alleghanles) and The Min neapolis Journal—to mention only three representative party organs—declare that when a national convention, voic ing an overwhelming popular demand, nominates a man for president. It Is his duty to accept, regardless of his own personal preferences and regardless also of any previous utterances which he may have made. Many things can take plice between now and the opening of the conven tions twelve months hence which might alter the political situation and make present forecasts vain. It I* only fair to *ay, however, that some of the enemies whom President Roose velt has made- and whom he Is now making ate by their enmity to him raising up new allies for him among the people every day. In tho past few years the United States has seen many political preju dices , discarded, many. prepossessions challenged, many parallels pushed aside and many precedents abolished. It Is altogether possible that 1908, In tho Republican convention and at the polls, may end the career of another tradition. Army-Navy Orders MOVEMENT OF VESSEL8. ANOTHER TERM FOR R003EVELT. Charles M. Harvey In Leslie's Weekly. But If the thing which Is expected by many Democrats and many Republi cans really comes to pass, the paper which can say "I told you so” with the greatest pride and emphasis Is the New York World. As long ago as March 28, 1908, a few weeks after his Inaugura tion for his firs: elected tjrm In the White House, that paper predicted that "Theodore Roosevelt will be renomi nated for president of the United States In 190S, nnd he will be re-elected." Tho fact that Henry Clews, of New York. Joins John Temple Graves, of Washington, May 18.—The following orders have been Issued: Army Orders. Following changes coast artillery or. dered: Captain James A. Shlpton, from Schenectady to school of submarine denfenses, Fort Totten, os disbursing officer, relieving Captain Robert E. Cal- lan, who will proceed to office chief of artillery, Washington, relieving Captain Lloyd England, who will proceed to Forty-eighth company, coast artillery. Recruit John W. Higgins, Infantry recruit depot, Columbus barracks, hav ing enlisted under false pretenses, dis charged without honor from the army. First Lleuteant Haywood S. Hansell, assistant surgeon from Washington to Fort Snelllng, relieving Captailn Walter D. Webb, assistant surgeon, who will proceed to general hospital, Washing ton barracks; Captain George L. By road*. retired from Culver Military Academy, Culver, to home; First Lieu, tenant Francis W. Clark, coast artil lery, to Artillery School, Fort Monroe. Private (first class) Auburn Moore, signal corps, from Fort Omaha to Fort Wllllnm Henry Harrison; Major John B. McDonald, Fifteenth cavalry, to Fort Ethan Allen: First Lieutenant Parks L. Willard, signal corps, from office chief signal officer, to Seattle; Corporal Edward Ward, signal corps, from Key West barracks to Fort Wood; Post Commissary Sergeant Joshua E. Banks, from Fort Oglethorpe to Fort Dade, relieving Poet Commis sary Sergeant Harry Corcoran; Ser geant Walter Baker, troop A, Sixth cavalry, Fort Meade, discharged from the army In the Interest of the United States. Navy Orders. Read Admiral G. A. Converse, re tired, detached duty as chief bureau of navigation, navy department, to duty as president board on construction; Mldshlpmsn V. Baker, detached Ken tucky to Des Moines; Assistant Sur geon W. H. Short, to naval hospital. New York; Warrant Machinist R. J. Vickery, to navy yard, Boston; Ensign A. T. Brisbln died on Tacoma, May 21, Movements of Vessels. ARRIVED—May 21, Maryland, nl Kobe; Rhode Island, at navy yard, New York; Saturn, at Sandlego; Sterling, at Newport News; Boston, at San Francisco, SaILED—Mray 20. Morris from navy yard. New York, for Newport. May 21, Rocket, from Washington for Norfolk; Rhode Island, from Tompklns- vllle for navy yard, New York; Nnn- shan, from Kobe for Cavite. Surplus and Profits (Earned) $589,894.68 These figures, according to. our last published statement, repre sent the amount we have accumulated from our earnings since organization for the protection of our depositors. This sum could be deducted from our resources at any time and there would still remain a balance sufficient to pay every dollar due depositors and leave our capital of $200,000.00 unimpaired. MADD0X-RUCKER BANKING CO. and scalawags until 1870, nnd In 1871 the legislature gave for public schools 8125.000. This amount has grown, until In 1906, out of Georgia's limited means, they gave 81,711,844. Georgia provides free tuition for all her children between the ages of 6 and 18 years. No state In this union has done more according to means to educate her children than Georgia, nnd the citizens of no state In this union have accom plished as much since our Civil war as Georgia. Your city, with over 8,000 when surrendered to Sherman, the Pushmataha of the federal army. Atlanta was sacked and destroyed, and scarcely 10 per cent of her build ings left, Iiob risen, Phoenix like; today we have more tnan half as much wealth as the state had after Sherman and his followers left It. When this government made war on our southland, Georgia, by the United States-census, was the seventh wealth iest state In the union per capita, and after we had been robbed by the In vaders, losing about 87 per cent of our wealth, we were among the poorest. Why, Massachusetts, at the end of the war, had-one-half as much wealth as the fourteen Southern states. The record of Georgia Is without a parallel in the world. France had a White population of 87.000. 000 and after her war paid a war Indemnity ot 81,000,000,000, and the world was amazed. Georgia, with less than a million of white people, lost 1530.000. 000, and In twenty-five years after the war had a credit equal to any state In the union and floated a 3 1-2 jer cent bond at par. In 1905, her cot on crop alone sold for more money than the taxable value of the whole state after the war. Sixty per cent of this crop was planted and made by our white people. All honor to Georgia. tonor to Georgia. W. B. BURROUGHS, M. D. WHEN HE IS KING OF SPAIN. There Is a yonag l'rlnce of Asturlsz, About anything; llut when he Is king Re Is likely to find It Injurious. —W. J. I,nmpton. Vino Rich In Rubber, A vino has been discovered In Mexico nceordlng to reports, which contains more rubber than nny other known plant. There Is so much rubber In the stems that It holds togethsr oven after the fiber of the wood Is broken. Should a method be. discovered of ex- trading the rubber, it Is believed that the discovery of the vine .will greatly affect the rubber Industry. The characteristics of the vine was first noticed on a cocoa plantation. Chinese In. borers observed tho wonderful elasticity of the vines, and wore them Into hammocks Tho drier the stems became the more man tle they grow. Upon Investigation tho vine was fonnd to contain 20 to £5 per cent of rubber There was n total absence of essential oil nnd rosin. The vine Is said to grow of Mexico. extensively lu many parts i "Fudge." Tho expression "Fudge!” which Is heard so often nowaday! Is not a new one. On the contrary, Its origin dates back to the reign of Charles II, when there was a sea captain who was named Fudge. No matter how unsatisfactory his .voyage, this nautical man always re turned with an endless string of pre posterous tales of great deeds and suc cess. His propensity for falsifying be came »o well known that whenever any one was heard telling a question able exploit, it became the custom to cry, 'Oh, you Fudge It!" RAILROAD ACCI0ENT8. (Broken rest snd broken discipline hsve msny more fatslltles to their scoru than Woken rails.—New York World editorial.) True, trus; alas, too true. These words so fitly epoken; And yet wbnt makes these fatal breaks Remains unbroken. Strides of London Amusements. The proposition to build another theater specially for London's 20,000 amateur play ers calls attention to tho wonderful strides mads In recent years by amusement places In tbs British metropolis. Thirty year* ago there were only Arty- flve theater* snd practically no music 800 theaters, mi a daily attendance of 150,000 persons In s I- son. « In 1870 thorn wsro only throe theatrical companies "on tbs road" In Englnnd; now there are nearly 800, nnd for each of these, of conn*, s theater has to bo found each week. "Not Worth a Tinker’* Contrary to the general Impression, the phrase, "not worth a tinker's dam," le one of Innocent character. It origi nated In a device that tinkers have used froth time Immemorial whenever they desired to flood a portion of their work with solder. It Is a circular wan of dough raised about the rim of a plate with a turned over edge, and nerves to prevent the melted solder from escaping. The material from which such a wall or dam la made Is worthless after having been used once. Upon this basis, naturally enough, the expression came to bo employed to characterize anything that was of only temporary usefulness. “Humbug.” The word "humbug" owes Its origin to a mint of worthless Irish coin. King James II had a lot of money made at the Dublin mint. Its Intrinsic value was comparatively nothing, twenty shillings ot It being worth only two pence sterling. William 111, after tho battle of Boyne, ordered that the crown and halfcrown of this mint be taken as pen- ny and halfpenny, respectively. The soft mlxturo of metal out of which the coin was made was called by the Irleh "Ulm-bog” (pronounced "Oom- bug”). Thus- came the word "hum bug,” meaning something with the ap pearance of value, but In reality prac tically worthless. London's population attended theatrical per formances; last year the percentage was 2.9. CORRECTING SOME ERRORS AS TO GEORGIA'8 ILLITERACY. Editor of The Georgian: I read In Sunday's Atlanta Journal an article on "Popular Education," by Rabbi David Marx. Re says that we have, according to the United States census of . 1900, 22 per cent Illiterate children between the ages of-10 and 14 years, and exclaims "what an appalling burlesque on the wealth, • • • progress, etc., of our state." Again he says, tho average II- literacy In the United States for native white males over 10 years of age Is about 5 per cent; that of Georgia Is 13 per cent. Further on In his article, he says "three-fourths per cent of our white children In this city, between the ages of 10 and 14 years, were In 1903, Illiterate." etc. Yesterday 1 visited the state school commissioner's office, but failed to see him. I procured a copy of hla report for 1903, which shows a total school population of Atlanta 22,583. Of this amount, 782 were Illiterate, less than 3 1-2 per cent; If we count only the white children, less than 2 per cent. Now. let us take Savannah, the sec- nnd city In wealth and school popula tion, we find one-half of 1 per cent of the white children between the ages of 6 and 19 arc unable to read or write. This Is the lowest percentage of Il literacy shown by any city of Its equal population In the world. I do not have access to the United States census, and I leave the city tomorrow. In 1905, the w hite people of Georgia paid taxes on 8557,000.000. while the colored people paid 820,000,000. N. twithstanding our negroes pay less than 3 1-2 per cent of our property tax, 5? per cent of them attend our public schools 'After the Civil war wan of tho city's amusement Ing foreigners; the United States, Canada nnd continental Europe supplying enough "transients” each season to mske many of the Pisces par handsomely. About 15,000,000 n year Is expended In ruunlng the thirty-two best known theaters ot London's West End. The cost of pro ducing s plsy averages 84.000 a week, vary Ing between 82.000 and 87,100. In addition, there la the original cost of production, which may rsngs from n few thniisnnii dollars at s small house to n lioo.ooo pantomime or spectacular drama at Drury Lane. Something About tho Brain. That portion of the substance ot the brain which le known as gray matter Is supposed, according to the highest author ities, tn be most Intimately related tn In tellectual action. Sometimes curious aggro- gallons of grey matter aro found In par ticular ports of tho brain snd Dr. Oswald Morton has recently suggested that those may bs the cause of tho extraordinary men tal powers occasionally exhibited by per sona whoso general Intellectual capacity hardly rises above that of Idiots. Huch powers, nr aptitudes, always relate to somo special faculty, like memory, without In- eluding other faculties. The aggregations referred to might ex. plain tho marvelous memory for music ex- hlblted by "Blind Tom," oud tbo still moro extraordinary power of Ilelnccker, the Child of Labeck. who lived lu the esrly E arl of tho eighteenth century: nnd who now the chief Incidents of tbo l’entntonch st tho ngo of ono yenr, had mastered *11 of snored history ot two years snd wns Intimately acquainted with modern and profane history snd geography, snd spoke French snd Latin, besides hla native tongue at tho ago of three. When four years old ho (lied. With roforonco to what has been nailed the relation of "brain light snd dronnis.” Professor Scripture, of Vole, once stated that ho had ipaaon to think that the faint “Hurrah." The history of many a race may bo read In Its battle cry. The "Banzai!" of the Japanese, the "Faghaghballah!” of the Irleh, and our own “Hurrah!" have found their origin far back In history. Although many authorltlee have de clared that the word "hurrah" Is a development of the Jewish "Hosan nah,” the consensus of opinion now lo that It Is a corruption of the ancient battle cry of the wild Norsemen, "Tur ale!” moaning, "Thor aid ue!" For merly the word wae spelled "Huzza” and pronounced "Hurray.'’ In one form or another It l» used by almost every nation. Sound Advice. Many friend* of a well-known horse- man aro still amazed over hie expe rience with a faker. Some little Unto ago he owned a horse which bothered him a great deal by foaming and driv eling at the mouth. At last one day he saw an advertisement In one of the pa pers of a new and sure remedy for the trouble. The price asked was only five shillings, and he concluded It was sure ly worth that to him, so he sent tha money along by the next poet. A few day* later came back a neat typewrit ten letter, with tho following advice: "Dear Sir—Teach the horze to spit. -Tit-Bite. General Kuroki. If General Kuroki le not one of tho moat Impreeslve exhibits at Jameatown It will be because the American people have forgotten the battle of the Ya!u and hla brilliant victoria* subsequently as commander ot.the right "Ing of Oyama'a army In Manchuria. In Kuro. kl we have ae a visitor one of the ablest of living soldiers. Nevertheless, hi* first thought on landing In America waz of the Japanese school children in San Francisco, for whom he made a graceful and friendly plea, suggesting a contrast truly Japanese.—New Yorx Sun. eyes, and which appears In tho form of rings, waves and Irregular figures. It due, not ns Is generally supposed, to cbeml cerebral light sppesrs to lie located In those higher eenlers of the brain that are connected with visual memories and Iraagliinilotiii. A rinse relation bas been ob served lietween throe cerebtnl light figures snd tho rontonts of dreams, sud Professor Scripture suggested that the hallucinations produced i>va drug*, like liaeblrb. may ho simply modifications of such figure*. Tho witty Bishop Hanford Olmsted, of Colorado, at n dinner In Denver, said apro pos of Habbnth breaking: “I was talking to an eastern clergyman the other ilny nl>out his ehurrb attendance. '• 'I suppose,' 1 said, 'that In your ills- trict mlu affects the attendance consider- le smiled faintly. Indeed* yes.' he said. 'I hardly have a vacant seat when It la too wet for golf or motoring.' "-Loo Angeles Times. Comemrcial Value ef Flies. File*-* ahnlllng nnd a InV a pound! Yea, thl* la the price of dead files In London. Yon did not know that tbo peatlfetou* Insects had a commercial value, did yon? These sold In London nr* caught In Brasil *hlri>*<l to England by the barrel. Men living along the Aiuaxoti make their Men living along the Amazon make their living by nitcblng files nnd sending them to Europe, where they ere imMnsed ns food for canary bints and gold fish. a pe*fd of files formerly cpst 5-ponce. »t the Incrensed demand remit,-I In n rise The ancient drillxatton of Borne Includ'd the doll as in Instructive plaything for children. Wrestling la the populnr sport of I Great tournaments or* held to decide » proiuaciea of district*.