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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NEWS) THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. JUNE 4. 19^ JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Publlihed Every Afternoon, iExert Dander) •y THE GEOKGIAN COMPANY. At 25 Wett Atabeme it.. Atlanta. Oe. Subscription Rates: __ „» r ft VI Mnnttn s«* Thma Months 1 !S »r Carrier. Per Week .: W Entered at the Atlanta PoetoSIce aa second-class mall matter. r*e*n»fttlr*t for all lerrltorj oati Georgia. Chfroro office Trlbano RnfMtng York office Potter Hull ding If yon bare any trouble grttlnr THB OEOnOIAN AND NEW8 telephone the circulation department end have It promptly remedied. Telephone*: Be!! 4*27 main. Atlanta 4401. that they be «1cfi*£. aa an eylAence of flood faith. Rejected mannacrlpta will not )>• returned nnleaa atnmpa are aeot for the pnrpoae. TIIR GEORGIAN AND NEWS print a no nncleae or objectlonabla ad- yer.l*Injr. Neither doea It print whlakj or anj liquor ads. e« do tble and jret gas aa low aa 40 la. with a profit to the city. Thla old be done at once. The Georgian OCR PLATFORM: Tba Georgian and New* atanda for Atlanta's owning Ita own gaa and electric light plants, aa It now owns Its watar works. Other cities do tble and HHVl * Bli and News belleyea that If street rail ways can be operated successfully by European cities, as they are, there Is no good reason why they can not be no operated here Bat we do not believe this can be done now, and It may be some years before we are ready " Mg an undertaking. Still A m; Persons leaving the city can have' The Georgian and News mailed to them regularly by send ing their order to The Georgian office. Changes of address will bo made as often as desired. The educational move muat not re cede In Georgia. The administration never mines a ehsnce to hit race suicide a solar plexus blow. Summer Is trying once more break In upon Its own season. We sre watching the effort with much Inter est The sweet girl graduate has assum ed her historic attitude—standing with reluctant feet, where the brook and river meet Don’t forget that .public-spirited At lanta owes one more half-hour’s work for the brave boys of the Fifth regi ment. Do It today. Archbishop Ireland agrees with tho president’s epigram "Peace with jus tice," as opposed to the sweeping dec laration, "Peace at any price.” The Washington Herald li still la menting Its failure to engsgo In con troveny the Japanese general who only knows four English words. The Georgia press Is now marshal ing Its ranks for an advance upon the Jamestown fair. Georgia day would be Incomplete without the Georgia ed Itar. The recent attitude of the Georgia Railway and Electric Company toward lights snd power baa done much to re store the entente cordlale between corporations snd the people. And now Rsy Stannard Bsker has discovered that the Southern people do not ekt pie. Having alresdy elim inated hash from our bills of fare, this enterprising discoverer has now strick en pie. But what has this to do with the race question? Atlanta Is the best governed city In the country. It has been made so by constant watchfulness and agitation on the part of Its people and newspa pers. I>et us keep It so. Eternal vigi lance Is the price of good government. Nice old gentleman that In tho edito rial chair of The Macon Telegraph. Willie tbe Bryan wave was sweeping the country he was ss dumb as an oyster and as meek as Moses about tho Democratic nominee. Now that there Is growing some opposition to tbe Nebraakan he Is blossoming out Into real freedom of expression. Is he getting ready to abuse Bryan again? Take care, Colonel. The Bryan wave haa a way of coming back and you may have to eat your words again. Don’t get too gay until you tee which way the Democratic cat la going to jump. In Ban Francisco It Is charged that the banker, and magnatea are all standing by President Pat Calboun. charged with bribery. In Idaho It la alleged that all tbe labor organizations are standing by President Moyer, charged with murder. If so, capital and labor are standing by their own with greater loyalty than discretion. SUGGESTION IN BEHALF OF THE FIFTH REGIMENT. Let us settle this question of the Fifth Regiment at Jamestown with out further delay. The bulk of the money needed baa been raised. There yet remains a few hundred dollars to make the trip of the regiment secure. This money can be won today. We suggest that any two good friends of the regiment among the merchants on Whitehall street take three-quarters of an hour or an hour at some time this evening ortomorrowmomlngand one on one side of the street and the other on tbe other side, give sixty minutes of their time to presenting the cause of the regiment and report the financial results to tbe colonel of tbe regimenL If any especially good friend of the regiment on Peters street and Decatur street and Broad and Alabama will give thirty minutes to sixty minutes, or If some two or three gentlemen who are going out of town to dinner on the Peachtree cars between Marietta street and Brookwood ’will carry In their hands a paper snd bring back the signatures on the return trip, and with what has already been said and with the spirit that has already been awak ened, we are thoroughly confident that the financial question will be set* tied and that the regiment may begin to pack tlielr grips for tbe great parade of the 10th ot June at Jamestown. TBfE PASSING OF THE CHICAGO CHRONICLE. The demise of The Chicago Chronicle Is worthy of comment. The Chronicle was one of the most brilliant papers In the United States. Its editor was n man of brains and Individuality, and had a staff that was goncrally conceded to be perhaps the brightest and the most capable staff of trained newspaper men In all tbe West. Its telegraphic service was as complete as Its editorial page was able, snd The Chronlclp was never less than interesting, and In most of Its editions a positively brilliant newspaper. And yet, The Chronicle with ample backing died for the lack of financial support. Its owners simply grew tired of pouring their money Into a deep hole dug by Its monthly expenses. There was not a newspaper In Chicago better merited of success In tbe mere element of news and brains than The Chronicle. Tbe only pos- slhlo explanation that can be given for Its death is the fact that it did not represent tbe people. From first to last It was always and under all circumstances the friend, the advocate and the champion of the corpora tions and tho plutocrats. It could win readers but It could not hold them, and Its subscription list, confined to the capitalistic few rather than to the people at large, was so small that advertisers did not see their way to buying Its space for a presentation of the articles which they bad to selL The moral seems to be when a paper gives Itself up exclusively to capital and Its representatives, unless capital pours Its grateful money Into Its empty till, tbe people will let the newspaper alone and bankrupt cy will do the rest pally on their behalf that I beg of you to uee your great Influence. Apologizing for taking up your valu able time, but hoping It Is not In vain. I remain. Faithfully yours, on behalf of the widow and children. WII.LIAM EDWIN MORRIS. Chatham. Kent. England, 107 Thorold Road, May il, 1907. Note.—Mr. Morris does not make clear the present whereabouts of the widow and children. If they are In America. The Georgian feels sure this appeal will not fall upon unresponsive ears. If they are In England, the duty would seem to rest there. In any event, more definite Information on the sub ject will be necessary before any action In the matter can be taken.—Editor The Georgian. 8PRING AND THE PARAGRAPHERS GEORGIA’S EDUCATIONAL BENEFACTORS. When we said the other day that Mr. Inman’s donation of ISO,000 to Agnes Scott was the largest sum given by an Individual Southerner to ed ucation, tho donations of Governor Joseph E. Brown had escaped our mlndB. 'In 1880 Joseph E. Brown gave to the Theological Seminary at Louisville, Ky., 150,000 which was subsequently Increased to $61,000 to en dow the Joseph E. Brown Chair of Practical Christianity. In 1884 Joseph E. Brown gave $50,000 to tho Unlvoralty of Georgia as n loan fund to educate as many boys as posslblo under the MacDonald- Brown Scholarship Fund. This sum has not been so managed ns to make the Increase which was expected. Jhe bonds pay 7 percent which In twenty-three years would materially Increaso It. And these donations, so far as we remember, had no condition at tached to them except that the boys educated under tho MacDonald- Brown Scholarship Fund were expected to pay back the sum expended as they prospered In the world. Probably no other Southerner of his time gave so generously to Southern education as ex-Governor Brown. Mr. Inman hns nobly begun an educational system of munificence which ranks him side by sldo with the grent war governor of Georgia. HOUSTON POST ABANDONED TO ITS FATE. The Georgian has possessed Itself In patience for many weeks, hope ful that with time to ponder seriously the gravity of the question con cerning tho hereafter that somo sonso of the terrible Into of unregenera ted parngrnphers would come to tho most depraved of the clan. But blithely, oven gleefully, somo of them rush on toward the doom that awaits them. With somo of tho piety Imbibed In tho state of his na tivity still lingering with him. In splto of n diet of Tronton-flavored shad, The Washington Herald paragrapher has shown underlying uneasiness of conscience, though thero has been tho outward semblance of utter aban don. There Is hope for this p. p. because he Is due on Georgia soil shortly, end Armuchco trout and bream with nn occasional dish of delicious Coosa river cat, will make him forget that any suen flfth-rato edible as Trenton shad ever existed. But we shudder at the thought of tho fate In store for Tbe Houston Post mau. Not content with arrogant boastfulness of tha strawberry, the canta loupe and tho watermelon raised In that vicinity. It has passed on to most astounding and fearsome boasting of everything In Texas—and not a small number of things existing solely In Its own fertllo Imagination. , Following tho preposterous story ot bass that feed on rabbit. The Post boldly fathered a story ot s esrlosd of Texas hens that laid enough eggs cu route to market to pay the freight! Emboldened by the credulity of a few. given to similar exploitation, The Post has passed on to stu pendous efforts of Imagination. But It has been hoist by Its own petard, at last Recently Houston battened down the Sunday lid so tight that there hat been no leak, oven for tho thirst-consumed Post staff. For weeks there was Impotent raging In The Post columns, together with personally con ducted Sunday JourneylngB to Galveston, where tho lid was off. But that did not avail, nnd now Tho Post Is writing long and eloquent panegyrics on Houston water! If that Isn’t gall and wormwood to that Post para grapher, The Georgian mistakes. The Post Is abandoned to Its fate. The Georgian waahes Its hands of responsibility In that direction. Let It go gaily on to Its doom. But for The Washington Herald, The Newark Star, The Charleston News and Courier, Tho New York Mail, The Cleveland Leader and Tho Rome Trib une hope Is still stroug that they will sense fully the error of their ways nnd reform. What a pitiful newspaper spirit It Is that would refuse to Join In the move ment to send the Fifth KeRiment to Jamestown because another newspa per suggested It! Suppose we had done that about Greater Atlanta? It makes the prayer ot the Pharisee seem appropriate: "Lord, we thank thee that we are not as other men arc." < For the thrilling “Davis Silence” of today, more credit Is due to Col. B. M. Blackburn, of the executive office, than to any other man In the South, saving only General Stephen D. Lee, who suggested it. Colonel Blackburn has made It his loving and loyal business for days past to over ture railroad officials, editors, mer chants and public men throughout the South to the observance of General Lee’s request, snd the response Is a joint tribute to the Confederate presi dent snd to one of the most loyal ad mirers that a great man ever had. A SOMEWHAT VAGUE APPEAL. To the Editor of The Georgian: I would like to draw your attention to a few facts concerning an accident to an Englishman, reported In your paper on the let or *d of May. • Young Stephens was a personal friend of mine, Snd at the present mo ment hie widow and children retide next door to me, and knowing the pow erful influence of the press In the cause of chanty. I thought that If you knew the true facts of the case, you would direct that Influence on their behalf. There has been great depression In the building trade In England for a con siderable time, and previous to hie leaving for America, young Stephens had been unemployed for about eight months, so you will readily perceive that he nnd his wife were almost pen niless. When he received Information from hts chum that there was work to be had In America. he borrowed the ’money and set out Immediately, and then after an Interval of seven weeks, the news arrived that he had been killed. Picture to yourself the state of hie poor widow. In a delicate state of health always, snd now crushed and broken with this last blow. It Is a mat ter of Impossibility for her to do any thing for her children, and It la princl- An ulstered spring makes grumblers of us all. The thermometer of news paper paragraphs proves It. Go to tbe exchange table and thrust your hand Into the pile blindly. If you do, maybe you will come on The Her ald. publlihed In far Mexico City. Then you will retd: Recent spring weather In Georgia haa Induced "lemoncholla" among the ehlv. erlng Georgians. They have soured on the merry sprlngtlmo with frosty ac companiments. Georgia got a shiver out of that note i well as Mexico. Coming north to the Great Lakes, we find this Is In The Chicago Examiner: There are other things In spring be. sides love and poetry. Coal bills, house cleaning and new onions must have made an Impression on The Examiner’s staff. Turn to the old reliable Bunpaper, of Baltimore. It puts a mercantile tinge on the matter by warning us: Please examine all samples of June weather thoroughly before accepting. May palmed off a lot of miserable ma terial on us. New York takes to rhyme. In the foL lowing from The World: When will It come? I mean that glaC but distant day, When I can put My winter overcoat away. The one brave sentiment, superior to the chill of a winter that outstays Its welcome, comes from Maryland—from The Eaeton Star-Democrat, to be ex plicit. We did not know The Star- Democrat Intimately. But we shall, now that we have seen Its spirit rise to such a glorious height as this: Love, like the bee, files back home from the fields of the world laden with honey. We’re going over to Easton soon to take at look at that bee.—Washington Times. And to the general plaint, one of Mr. Munsey’a Boston or Washington poets adds the following: NOTICE. Lost—strayed—or stolen— A planet called the sun. Fifty million plunks reward To you, or anyone Returning It to Boston By any hook or crook. In time to do a stunt or two Ere winter’s on the book. Description—quite a large-sized sun. With whiskers ’round the. edge. Inclined when he Is wanted most On gala days, to hedge Behind a cloud—and yet, withal. Of genial disposition— A fat, round run, a pleasant sun. When In the right condition. Two days ago he strayed away. Reward to the first-comer Who brings him back In time to give A little bit of summer. NOT L. H. O. MARTIN OPPOSED BY FARMER8. To the Editor of The Georgian: I notice In the editorial column of your paper of the 29th a card with the head lino, "Not L. H. O. Martin Op posed by Farmers.” ‘ You make an explanation about an article on Immigration I wrote In reply to Mr. O. M. Davis, state lecturer of the Farmers' Union, and Mr. Davis fol lows with a card In which he says. "In a personal letter, Hon. L. H. O. Mar tin, of Elberton, calls my attention to an error made In my reply to T. H. Martin, Talbotton, on the Immigration question. "I regret very much that the reply should have coupled Hon. L. H. O. Martin’s name with the article of T. II. Martin. Hon. L. II. O. Martin Is a member of the Farmers' Union of El bert county and Is opposed to Immigra tion. "Thle card Is written In fairness to Hon. L. 11. O. Martin, tor certainly, under no circumstances, would I do him or any other man an Injustice. I trust this explanation will be aatle- factory to all concerned."—O. M. Da vis. Now, I must say all this It much ado about nothing so far as I am concern- I have not seen any reply made to my article by Mr. Davis, and of course do not understand these expla nations. If Hon. L. H. O. Martin felt he was attacked and wrote a personal letter to hie brother State Lecturer G. M. Davis, I feel like the boy the calf ran over. I do not know "where I am at" In this mlx-up, and desire to be Informed who hit "Billie Patterson." I am strongly In favor of Immigration and believe It to be the only solution of the negro problem and to Improve our moral con ditions and supply the much-needed la bor on the farms throughout the state. I see the Farmers’ Union In the state meeting In Atlanta on May 15 passed resolutions opposing Immigration and Hon. L. It. O. Martin appears as one of the committee making the 'report, and 1 do not understand why Mr. Da vis. being state lecturer, should not be posted as to this report and get my article mixed up with L. H. O. Martin. I see nothing In the resolution* to cause me to alter my convictions on the Im migration question, and I must say In all candor, I believe the Farmers’ Un ion In opposing this movement Is doing great Injury to the development of the agricultural and material Interests of the state. Wo never can hope to rench that perfection In diversified and high- grade farming with the Ignorant and unreliable negro who only knows how to run a scooter and scrape nnd raise cotton at a toss, and the farm he tills growing less productive ae the years go by. Give me the Anglo-Saxon white farmer anywhere to build up a country. T. H. MARTIN. Talbotton, Ga. JUDGES AND THEIR CIRCUITS. To the Editor of The Georgian: I note with pleasure another article from the pen of Francis II. Harris, Brpnswlck, Ga., on the question electing the judges of the superior courts and how they should be re quired to-serve, etc. In tho first proposition Mr. Harris says: "Judges should be olected by the vote of the entire atate, and not as now, by the vote of the respective cir cuits.” Tbe Judge* are now under the present law elected by a vote of the en tire state, and as this Is the case It ' sufficient reason why the governor should be empowered with authority to transfer each of the Judges elected In the respective circuits to some oth er circuit In the state In which to “operate as Judge.” I knew a judge once, who when go Ing out of office during the last six hours of his service, held a secret ses sion of his court In order to enter up Judgments In cases where they were represented by a lawyer who had sim ply committed no crime except to vote as he pleased In the election. Yet this Judge, through prejudice of the rank est kind, was permitted, under the present system, to do damage h prejudicing clients against their attor ney and causing them serious harm and damages, just because the Judge operating remembered the boys who hail transpired to bring about his de feat. This Is Just one In a number of similar cases which we might be able to produce, were we caring to “rake up old lores,” eto. Do you know that some of the so. llcltors of this state are working ( very serious evil on the state Just elm plv because they are not supported by the entire bar of the circuit In which they attempt to be such officers? For Instance, let ua see If the solicitors In some of the circuits are not practicing Just this kind of a game. They are refusing to try tho cases In the clr. cult where the defendant In the crlm Inal cases are represented by an at tomey who furnished any kind of op position to his election, for the purpose of throwing that lawyer out with a class of clientage and forcing that clase to say wo don’t want to employ such nnd such a lawyer because the so licitor and lie are at outs nnd If It is a bad case, he can’t effect a compromise and rob the state, etc. In other words, the solicitors In some of the circuits In this state are selling out the vir tue of the state for a song, not more than the cost. In order to enhance his own private fortune the easiest old way. while there Is another class of criminals not any worse that he puts to the limit of thq law. Just because the lawyer on tho other side exercised the highest privilege guaranteed to an American citizen. This Is a seri ous business for the bar In each cir cuit where such Is the practice. And It Is a more serious business to society and to the state. I knew of some clients who were brought out of an other state In a criminal case to be tried, and held for whole weeks a num ber of witnesses In order to try their case at great expense to themselves and tho -state, and the case was not tried and could not be tried on the ground nbove Indicated. If there Is a mean animal on earth It Is a mean prosecuting officer in the service of the state. You say Impeach, others will suggest other remedies, but I sug gest the shipping out as the very best remedy which can be afforded and the one that Is most convenient and effect tve. Has not this thing been an observe tlon throughout various parts of the state bv members of the bar and by honorable citizens? Then let us have a remedy for the evil, which Is one of the most menacing ever exercised by an official of any character. Truly, H. W. NALLEY. Dallas. Ga.. May 25. 1907. To the Editor of Tho Georgian: I believe I speak on behalf of t large number of Southern Democrats when I ask for Information on tbe following points: 1. Why Is It that certain great Southern Democratic lenders, like senator Halley, of Texss, snd Hon. John Shsrp Williams, of Mississippi, nre so active and emphatic in tbelr opposition to Mr. Bryan's slightly Illogical and undemocratic Idea of federal ownership of "n few trunk lines” of rail road. while at the same time they are slleut aa tha grave on Ids purely Democratic and strictly constitutional Idea of state (not federal or national) ownership of all rail roads within tbe boundaries of tbe respec tive states? 2. Do not theto grent leaders well know that under stats ownership (as distinguished from federal ownership and from private monopoly) of public utilities, Including rail roads, there conld be no possible danger of the "negro domination,” the "centralisa tion nt Washington" nnd the "Moilrnnlsn- tlon of this republic,” about which the lion. John Hhnrp Williams seems so greatly agitated? 1. Why do them distinguished gent! greatly magnify Mr. Brynn’a slightly erro neous advocacy of federal ownership of "a few trunk lines," nnd wholly Ignore his brave and honest ndvoca lent, constitutional nnd to the dnmnnhle i public highways known trying to olid I THE OPALESCENT PORTALS. Ita palace serial With glory ethereel. In tbe loud of tha West, Where all days rest. Till the clarinet rlsnr Calls morning here To honor and raise Onr little lire-lays To the Master of days. -Arnold B. Hall. Pendergrass^ Os. street railways, waterworks, lighting plants, schools, sowers, penitentiaries, asylums, hospitals, market places, postal fsclll etc., etc.? Do they, by their cheap- talk about "socialism." expect to bo Sble to scare honest snd sane Southern Democrats Into the belief that the public—the stats nr tho city—should not retain, own nnd operate Its own public Internal, and not torn tbe unto over to prlrate and selfish money schemers to ho monopolized and operated by on* of these modern firtlnnnl and soul less entitles known ns n "corporation for pecuniary profit?” 5. Or ere them gentlemen artfully aiming, by nrrarlng the Hotithern Democracy against the objectionable doctrine of fed eral ownership of any anal every sort, and committing It to absolute alienee on the correct nnd Democratic doctrine of state and mnnlrlpat ownership tnot federal)—sre they by this meins playing Into the hands of the Harrlmsnt, the Hills, the Morgans nnd- the (loultls. whom sole end only nlm Is to saddle upon the country and the sev eral states for another forty yearn the gi gantic anil fraudulent Republican farce aif federal aor state) "regulation" nnd "con trol" of private thievery. Instead of "public ownership of public utilities?" g. Let’s see, ahieen't tbe state of Georgia aiwn n raltrawid? Texas does. Are the peo ple of Georgia operating their own railroad, at cost, for their own benefit? Or have the pulltb-lsns turned It aaver to some little Gonial or Vnnalerbllt hecnnaae tboy (the poli ticians! are grrntly frightened alaotit "so cialism?" The politicians needn't be scared. Democratic communities owneal anal op erated their lass highways, nnd Improve] highways, hundreds and perhaps thousands of years before auch a thing ate a corpora tion for pecuniary profit wo* beord of. anal before the word “socialism" was cailnetL 7. Thank g-t-luess the day la rapidly ap proaching when time servers nnd dishonest polltlclsns will have to come out ifi the open and plainly declare themselves as be ing -nreserreally In favor of private mo nopoly of public utilities, at against state itnd mttnlcfpal ownership; or they wilt be driren Into open ndroency of the Republican fraud doctriue of federal “regulation" and "control" ot legalised larceny. F. Q. 8TCAUT. 8hrereport. La., May 21, 1907. THE ERIE CANAL AND OURS. To the Ealitor ot The Georgian: Any account of the Erie canal a* Il lustrating what would result In Georgia from a canal and In Alabama another section of canal, thua connecting through the Tennessee river the Mis- 'slasippl river and Ua tributaries, with the Georgia rivers and coast, would be Inadequate, which did not refer to the other, and subsequently built canal feeders of the main stem the Erie. There were constructed in all, be sides the Erie, thirteen other canals largely by feeders of the Erie. These ehort canals have not, through the entire period since their construc tion, been uniformly profitable, aa has the Erie. Indeed, the aggregate of loss haa been a large sum, not large enough, however. *o that aggregate earnings, with earnings of the Erie have been insufficient to pay all operating expens es, expeneea #f maintenance and entire cost of the canals, and leave a large surplus over. . These canals have no doubt, as haB the Erie, contributed to the wonderful record of New York’s Increase ■- wealth and population. There Is probably no doubt that his tory will repeat Itself In Georgia, where .the main mileage of the canal will be In the construction of a num ber of canals as feeders, aiding greatly In the development of the states re sources. C. P. GOODYEAR. Brunswick, Ga THE B083. hen things go essy, he Just ssunters round „ At 10 o’elock or so: then rends bis mall. Dictates some half doxen letters to the girl, , Tosses us each s word, nr maybe two. Looks at tha papers; lights a good cigar, 'Phones to s friend, and then goes out to And l* B fo boa* nnd say to maw: “Goo I hate to work! I wisp I wuz tho boss!’’ But my! when things go wrong! Maybe a etrlke. , , . Or prices down, or some bank goee nnd Then ain’t he Johnny-on-thoapot at 81 Than he don't rake no tlmo to read the Nor eat"no lunch, bnt kseps us all a Jump. Then he shoots letters at tho girl till she Gets flustry red spots on her cheeks; and Eren 1U oIif*Chief Clerk hustle; yon know Thst*fnt’one, with the sort of double chin. And me—why. I’m greased lightning when he calls. . ...... And when night comes, then he looks kind And nnxiousllke. end yet so full of fight, I get a sort of aching In my throat. Like something cbokln me, when I look nt borne and say to maw: “Geo him. And I^ko Blsness la tough. I’m glad I ain’t tlic —Harper’s Magaslne. WEALTH AND EDUCATION. To the Editor of The Georgian: We can not pick up a paper now without seeing where some rich man has given a hundred thousand or million to some educational Institution, Thla has got to be so common It has led the general public to ask, “Have the rich gone Insane on the subject of education?" Now, everyone who knows anything knows education Is to the hu man Intellect what.a grind-stone Is to an ax, and everyone who knows any thing knows If you keep fooling with a grind-stone you will soon have mo ax. Country people today are using as an excuse to get to town they want to educate some 12 or 14-year-old kid The kid ought by all means to be kept at work at that age, his physical make up being a matter of ten times as much Importance at that age as mental de velopment nnd at the samo time a sine qua non to mental strength anyway. Medicine, education and religion are all right when properly administered, but It won’t do to go crazy about either one. As a general rule, the rich are not well educated themselves. Conditions are such they do not mix With the masses, nor do they know the needs of humanity at large, hence tho sitp-up In Judgment. I read a rldtcu lous piece In the paper the other day, Illustrated, showing the poor "one-gal- farmer ns he Is today and as he will he when Rockefeller’s millions have enlightened him. * Now, I wonder If that editor knows that 95 per cent of the agricultural classes of Georgia, Ala bama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas are today os well educated as Rocke feller himself and so far as general men tal makeup and mental balance Is con cerned hts equal or superior. The motive, of the rich In making these magnificent gifts need not be ques tloned—they are perhaps good. It is true some of them may be led astray by a hope ot posthumous fame, but then they are the losers. Fame of any •kind Is the most ethereal, worthless diet ever dished out by the Goddess of Fortune to weak humanity, ’"TIs true, 'tls pity and pity 'tls true," ac cumulated wealth Is dangerous, no mat ter whether In the hands of a private Individual or In the hands of the church. Its danger doea not change because of a change of ownership. Un less this craze of dumping the wealth of the country Into the hands of this or that eduratlonal Institution stops, the governments, as a matter of public policy, will have to confiscate It as they did church property hundreds of years ago. Millionaires can’t carry their wealth with them, but I think no more of It Is needed by either church or school. Let them give It to the poor. The poor are numerous and always with us. We are told upon good au thority that the widow's mlto Is worth more to the cause of Christianity thnn all the gold that ever glistened on tho Pacific coast, or the diamonds that have sparkled In South Africa. The rich man’s wealth can't keep up the church. The pious man’s dollar must do that, and the pious man Is always ready to give the dollar, so let the rich keep their wealth. It they lose post humous fame It is not worth a conti nental anyway. Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon have been remembered. Cice ro and Demosthenes by'thelr eloquence make us think of them occasionally, but the majority of us need not Indulge In any such foolish hopes. When we are gone we are gone, and even our widows forget us for a better looking man In twelve months. J. F. ALEXANDER. Rome, Ga., June 1, 1907. The Endless Chain Prayer. To the Editor of The Georgian: The endless chain prayer frond, which haa I teen circulating all over the cnnntry. deluding n lot of good people ami attributed to Blahop Lawrence, I* not worthy of tho thought of any Intelligent Christian or Protestant. It Is s perfect example of the tireless system of prayer against which Luther and the other greet reformer* of tbe elxteenth century fought nml freed tbemaelrc* of, to anything tlmut thl* "chain.” nor as to why It bn* been promulgated In hi* name. He requests all who receive them to destroy theaL And now. good people who have sent out this "prayer chain," kindly Inform your friends of this fraud so that thla harmful fake may lie brought to an end. and here after beware of "spiritual benefits" obtain ed In such fashion. . „ ALEX L. BROOKS. Cedar town, Ua. Four Per Cent Certificates As An Investment. In offering our Interest- Bearing Certificates of De posit to the public, it is with the assurance that they af ford the most conservative method of investment. They combine every ad vantage, as they are safe, ne gotiable, transferable and payable on demand. MADD0X-RUCKER BANKING CO. Alabama and Broad Streets. ARMMAVY ORDERS —AND— MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS Washington, June 4.—The following orders have been Issued: • Army Orders. First Lleqtenant Samuel Franken- berger, field artillery, detailed to attend encampment organized militia of Con necticut, July 22 to 27. Following officers, corp* of engi neers, to departments designated as chief engineer officers: Colonel John G. D. Knight, Department of the East; Lieutenant Colonel W. H. Blxby, De partment of the Lakes; Major John Biddle, Department of California, and Lieutenant Colonel Solomon W. Roesa- ler. Department of the Columbia. Captain Ward B. Pershing, Tenth cavalry, having been found by retiring board Incapacitated for active servtcj on account of disability"Incident there to, his retirement Is announced. Captain James P. liarbeson, Twelfth Infantry, to charge construction work Governor’s Island, vice Captain Moore N. Falls, quartermaster; Captain Ed ward A. Shuttloworth, quartermaster, from quartermaster’s department: Captain Ulusses G. McAlexander, gen eral staff, from general staff corps, de tailed professor military science, Ore gon Agricultural College, Corvallis. Captain Edwin G. Davis, from unas- slgned list to Sixty-first company, coast artillery; First Lieutenant William R. Bettlson, from unassfgned list to One Hundred nnd Twenty-fifth company, const artillery: Captain George Blake ly, coast artillery corps, to Fort Tor- rey for duty with One Hundred and Twenty-fifth cempany, coast artillery corps during Joint army and militia coast defense exercises. Major General John P. Story, re tired. from national coast defense board to home: Captain Harry A. Eat on, Twenty-third Infantry, detailed professor military science West Vir ginia University, Morgantown, vice Major James M. Burns, retired, who will proceed home. Sergeant Major Harry B. Smith, sen ior grade, coast artillery, from FoYt Leavenworth to Presidio, of San Fran cisco, relieving Sergeant Major George W. Harvey, senior grade, coast artil lery corps, who will proceed to Fort Barrancas, relieving Sergeant Major John E. Anderson, senior grade, coast artillery corps, who will proceed to Fort McKinley. Sergeant Major Louis O., Huffman, Junior grade, coast artillery corps, from Key West barracks to Fort Mott; First Sergeant William Rogers, Forty- seventh company, coast artillery, plaeed upon retired list; Private (first class) Jolce W. Price, hospital corps. Fort Sam Houston, discharged from the army. Naval Ordart. Lieutenant D. C. Bingham, to Ten nessee; Lieutenant H. L. Wyman, de tached Naval Academy, to Tacoma: Lieutenant D. C. Hanrahan, detached Tacoma, home to wait orders; Lieu tenant J. H. Tomb, detached Stockton, to command Hull; Lieutenant W. N. Jeffreys, detached Naval Academy, to Alabama; Lieutenant W. K. Riddle, to Maine; Lieutenant W. G. Mitchell, de tached Naval Academy, to command Stockton; Lieutenant H. E. Cook, de tached Louisiana, to command Shu- brlck; Lieutenant A. W. Johnson, de- tarhed Hhubtick. to Naval Academy: Lieutenant W. T. Cluverlus, detached Naval Academy, to Mississippi; Lieu tenant T. C. Hart, detached Hull, to bureau of ordnance, navy department; Lieutenants R. Wallace and L. U. Wal. lace nnd Paymasters B. C. Colby and H. A. Wise, Jr., commissioned; Assist ant Naval Constructors J. E. Ottereon and C. A. Harrington, appointed; Gun ner T. J. Hurd, detached navy yard, Washington, to Prairie, Movements of Vesaela. ARRIVED—May SI, Caesar, at Cu- lebra; Rocket, at Washington; Rhode Inland, at Tompklnsvllle; Sylph, at navy yard, New York: Nina, at Annap olis; Denver and Cleveland, at Gi braltar; Helena, at .Amoy. June 2, Wnsp, at Key West; Wolverine, at De troit: Elcano, at Hongkong. SAILED—June 1. Rhode Island, from navy yard. New York, to Tompklns vllle; Wasp, from Port Tampa for Key West; Olympia, from Norfolk for Annapolis; Sylph, from Oyster Bay for navy yard. New York; Eagle, from Guantanamo for Hampton Roads; Wolverine, from Erie for Detroit. June 2, Chicago, from Sandlego for Bremer ton: St. Louis, from San Lucia for Bahia. FAITH’8 ANSWER TO THE AGES. Brother, tell me of the spirits Who hare left this life we know; Do they rest lu Glory's region Whon from us thoy’re called to goT Do they then Inhabit Heaven And nwatt our landing there. Or do they forget tlie friendships 'Mid tho Joys so bright and rare? Do they pass the Pearly Portals As tbe spirit takes Ita leave. At the mind on earth Is darkened Does It lire aa wo bellere? Not the snnset of existence Is tbe drapery of otir life, 'Tla God’s spirit transportation To Ills Kingdom without strife. Glory has It* guardian spirits And their memory to us clings; Thev sre helping ua to Heaven, Where the glory-anthem rings. They are railing us to listen To the welcome words of lore; They are telling of the teachings Of the Savior-King above.