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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. Wednesday. octoheb is, hoi. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NEWS) JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. T. B. COODWIN, Gcn'l Mgr. Published Every Afternoon. (Except Sun^y) * By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY. At It West Alabama 8t„ Atlanta. Ol. 8ubacriptlort R*taai SI* Months fS Three Months One Month * •?! By Carrier. Per Week a® Telephones ronnsetlnc *11 d*P*rt* ments Isonf distance terminals. Smith ft Thompson, sdrertlslnx rep* reaentatlres for all territory oatslds of CbfnSrt Office Trtbuns BolMlos New York Offlr. Brunswick Bid*. If yon hare any tronhle getting THB GEORGIAN AND NEWS. telephone the circulation deportment and ba*a It promptly remedied. telephones. Bell 4327 main; Atlanta 4401. Subscriber* destrlnir their Georgian discontinued roust notify this office on the date of expiration; otherwise. It will he continued nt the regular aub* scrlptlon rates until notice to atop *• feeelTed. In ordering a change of sddress. please five the old ns well as tba new •ddrese. It Is desirable that ell commnnU 1HE GEORGIAN AND NEWS print* do unclean or objectionrtble ndrertls* lug. Neither does It print whisky or aoy liquor ads. OUR M.ATFOItM; TUB OBOKOIAN AND NEWS stauds for Atlnuta’s own- In^ Its owu gas and electric light plants, as It uow own*. Its water works. Other cities do this and get Sis as low ss M cents, with a proflt to the city. This sht.f.d be don# «t puce. TIIK OEOROU.4 AND NEWS bellcret that If #tre*t railways can be operated aiiemafnlly by European cities, as they ere. there le uo good reason why they can not h# *o oper ated hers. But we Jo not believe this can be done now. and It may be soroe years Ixjfore we are ready for ao big Tho Lusitania la the whliterd of the deep. Major Hanson Is sometimes a lit tle careless with his tongue. - This Is evidently to be an "off year” nrith parties In Georgia and else- a-here. Mrs. Hetty Green, by reason of t ears and accumulation, may ' be known as "the long green." Mobile- U'ln< doubt as to whether »he should-reetrtot the‘‘speed of elec tric motor carriages. Yes, you cer tainly auto-Mobile. i Upon request tt gives us genuine pleasure to add the name of John TV. Kern, of Indiana, to the list of possi ble Democratic nominations for 1908. Do we understand that the boom of Senator Culberson for 1908 has died In tho offlee of The Houston Post? llow sad! .The Horae hit his master; llow came It ]tn pass? Ho heard the good preacher say. “All flesh Is grass." , The Houston Post has been fully as responsive as we expected It to be on tho proposed nomination of our "South Carollua gentleman" for tho presidency. Thanks. There Is no need for the president in hunt tor hear outside his mother's state. Are not the canebrakes of the Okofenokee as gameful as the swamps of Louisiana? Major D. A. Tompkins, of Char lotte, owns nearly as many newg- i.apers as he does cotton mills. Now If tho Major would buy a few woolen ■sills he might spin "yarns" on the eomblnatlon plan. Lillian Russell has become the only open American advocate of divorce. And Lillian Is at least consistent in tbat she accompanies her faith with works. She has been married some thing less than a doxen times, and the present bolder of the title may look out. Colonel Thomas Loylesa seems to be the center of an arch conspiracy to bring about an estrangement be tween Governor Hoke Smith and Tom Watson. Will he succeed? The Journal and The Jeffersonian are al ready showing some distressing symptoms of non-agreement. When Divers Get Angry. (Stout The Sew York Prrs*.) “One of the ettense effect, th»t tilting b,» upon thou- who practice It," uiltl ■ veteran direr, "It the levnrieble bed tern- i er felt while worhlng el the bottom; end e, thl, irritability paw, away a, won a, the surface le reached esein. It It only reasonable to tappets that it le ceased by the ueueuel preetare of etr laable the drese effecting the lung, end probably through them tbs brain. My experience he, been that while below one may fly Into e vie- .lit ptaelon at the merrex trine; for In- .tenet, the life line mny be held too tight or too alnck; too ntneh nlr or too little, or eoine Imaginary wrongdoing on the pert or the tender, or the men nbov* will often ciure the temper to rite. "I lure sometimes liecome no angry in > rlmller wny that I hire given the el* ► ■■ii nt the .nrf.ee wee neared end the weight of sir deereased. my feeling, here inxlully undergone n change for the better until by the time I reached the Udder end bed the face glsae unscrewed 1 hod forgotten entirely whet I came up for.'' ‘‘THE REDUCED RATES.” Quite in line with our way of thinking Is what The Atlanta Georgian has to say upon the question of the two-cent railroad rate which has been so much discussed In that state. As our contemporary says, the reduced rate is either right or It Is wrong; It Is either a very great Injustice to the rallroadB or It Is a piece of tardy Justice to the traveling public. And as our contemporary further says, the only way the matter can be determined la by a painstaking and thorough examination Into the affairs of the roads to see Just what they do make and how- much It costs them to make It.—Greensboro, N. C., News. The only thing that The Georgian has not been able to understand In the consideration of this great question Is tho apparent lack of weight which experiment In other states has had upon the view of our own com mission upon the question of lower rates. We have shown from the official reports of other states not only In the populous E*Bt, but In the more thinly,settled West, that the reduction In the rate, so far from bringing damage and ruin to the railroads, has actually resulted In proflt of a most substantial nature. Are we wrong In the theory that the effect of the lower rate In states similar to Geor gia would surely be followed by the same effect In Georgia If adopted here? If Missouri, and more especially Kansas, can prosper under tho 2-cent rate, wo see no reason why Georgia, with equal population at least to Kansas, should not do likewise. As our North Carolina contemporary very properly observes, the basic principle Involved Is not any particular rate of freight or passen ger faro, but the principle of so adjusting those fares that on the one hand the railroads will be allowed to make a fair return upon their ln- veetments, and on the other hand, the traveling and shipping public will not be obliged to pay extortionate charges. What Is right and Just In one state may be neither right nor Just in another state, owing to pecu liar conditions, such as the density of population, the cost of mainte nance due to the character of the country, and half a doxen other ele ments which may well enter Into tho equation. Thore. Is one principle that must be admitted at the outset—and that Is the principle that the state has the Inherent right to flx rates. This admitted, the fixing of any particular rate becomes not the asser tion of a great principle, hut simply the administration of a principle, which administration should he alike Just to both sides. But the great trouble Is that It seems that In all these rate contro versies there Is a great stir and turmoil that accomplishes no good what ever, but simply serves to muddy the waters. THE FIVE-CENT RIVER RATE. The concession by the Georgia Railway and Electric Company of a flve-cent fare on the River line, leads Councilman Hancock to say that he had "never yet found President Arkwright unwilling to hear or to heed the Just wishes of tho people." This Is high praise for a corporation official from a public officer, and It Is not undeserved. We have had occasions from time to time to criticise certain policies of the Georgia Railway and Electric Company, but we do not hesitate to aay that Mr. Arkwright and his colleagues ■have done many broad and liberal things within the past twelve months which have greatly commended them to the confidence of tho people, ivSjrwjilch will surely stand them In good stead In future differences whlcti may arise. t'-. icesslon of the flve-cent rate on the River line has long been desired by tho residents of that section of the city, and Its foil and kind ly concession Is much appreciated. Only let a corporation get It once into people's heads that they are really willing and anxious to be reasonable and accommodating, and the people are thereafter slow to anger or suspicion. it Is the best of policies In President Arkwright to have done this thing. NO, THE QEOROIAN NEVER CLAIMED IT. The Atlanta Georgian. Colonel John Temple Graves. Is now taking all the credit for the Georgia prohibition law. But The Georgian will need help In enforcing tho law.—Raleigh Dally 1 whjMffiotftd a IffhsIMe ma'n who can read, write ff statement like this? There Is not In existence a line of written or spoken utterance wliloh Justifies such a paragraph. The, Georgian has never remotely or directly claimed, or intimated th«1t'deserved the credit for tho Georgia prohibition iaw. On the con trary, It has named repeatedly the forces of energy In the present era and In past campaigns whose brave, faithful and tireless advocncy has bttllded the sentiment that grew Into state prohibition with the recent legislature. We have paid tribute to men. women, newspapers and or ganisations by name tbat have laid the foundations for this majestic moral day. and If wc have been proud to publish In these columns some of the many grateful commendation! of our own earnest part In the final battle, It «U In the spirit of rejoicing that wo were born In time to pht-d6r‘sboilfler with othel- shoulders agalnat the mighty wheel of progress which revolved to the great end. Yes,.'Indeed, The Georgian will need help In enforcing the law. Which means that The Georgian will help In enforcing the lnw. We eland ready to act with and for the great body of the earnest people who voted this moral law Into existence. The help that we need la the same kind of help that we expect to give. , And working In harness with the great majority of the people of Georgia, we shall help to bring the mighty force of public opinion to bear upon the enforcement of a righteous law. Meanwhile we commend our esteemed contemporary of The TlmeB to a more careful reading of the flies of The Georgian for Its attitude on public Issues. THE WANING OF WOOD. The question of woods tor building and commercial purposes Is In Georgia and elsewhere one of the great problem! of the future. Our great timber forests are passing rapidly away under the enor- 'mous demands of modern development, and we must plant new forests and pending their development, we must develop or discover new ma terials to do the work of the world. Although the demand for hardwood lumber is greater than ever be fore, the annual cut today Is a Milton feet leas than It was seven yoars ago. In this time the wholesale price of the different classes of hard wood lumber advanced from 25 to 65 per cent. The cut of oak. which In 1899 was more than half the total cut of hardwoods, has fallen off 36 Iter cent. Yellow poplar, which waa formerly second In point of output, has fallen off 38 per cent, and elm has fallen off one-half. The cut of softwoods Is over four times that of hardwoods, yet tt is doubtful If a shortage In the former would cause dismay In so many In dustries. The cooperage, furniture, and vehicle Industrie! depend upon hardwood timber, and the railroads, telephone and telegraph companies, agricultural Implement manufacturer* and builders use It extensively. This leads to the question. Where Is the future supply of hardwoods to be found? The cut In Ohio and Indiana, which, seTen years ago. led all other states, has fallen off one-half. Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Michi gan. Minnesota, Missouri. New Jersey, Tennessee. Texas, WeaJ Virginia and Wisconsin have also declined In hardwood production. The chief centers of production now lie In the Lake states, the lower Mississippi valley, and the Appalachian Mountains. Yet In the Lake states the presence of hardwoods Is an almost certain Indication of rich agricul tural land, and when the hardwoods are cat the land Is turned perma nently to agricultural use. In Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi the production of hardwoods Is clearly at Ha extreme height, and In Missou ri and Texas It has already begun to decline. The answer to the question, therefore, would seem to He In our Ap- imlachlan Mountains. They contain the largest body of hardwood tim ber left in the United States. On them grow the greatest variety ot tree species anywhere to be found. Protected from Arc and reckless cutting, they produce the best kinds of timber, since their soil and climate com bine to make heavy stands and rapid growth. Yet much ot the Appa lachian forest has been so damaged In the past that It will be years be fore tt will again reach * high state of productiveness. Twenty billion feet of hardwoods would be a conservative estimate of the annual pro ductive capacity of the "3,000,000 acres ot forest lands In the Appalach ians If they were rightly managed. Until they are we can expect a shortage In hardwood timber. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR 0HANLER COMES. Atlanta with fine and appropriate hospitality will entertain Lewis Stuyvesant Chanter, lieutenant governor of New York. . It la a gallant gentleman who comes to us from the Empire State of the Republtc. He come* with high character, gracious manner and a very large and practically attested iwpularlty. He comes frankly avow ing a very high and honorable ambition to stand os the candidate of a party to which hfe has ever been loyal, for the loftiest public station In the government. It Is the right of every reputable citizen to aspire, and It Is commendable os well. -. With political spurs fairly won in a campaign In which he outran Ills party by many thousand votes, end with a personal and party loyalty that outweighed the personal considerations of his success, Lieutenant Governor Chanler represents unusual strength and popularity In his na tive atate, and carrying the favor of Tammany In his candidacy, will surely be a figure of force In the next national convention. He will be cordially welcomed to Atlanta and. by all the records, will win friends by the score In the city and In the commonwealth. Growth and Progress of the New South The Georgian here records each day some economic fact In reference to the ontrflrd progress of the South. BY JOSEPH B. LIVELY The Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index says In Its Issue for this week: “No longer la It true In this part of the country that the dead man Is shroud ed In n robe made In Massachusetts, placed In a coffin manufactured In Ohio and lowered Irtto n grave dug with it pick fashioned In Pennsylvania, In solid marble which Is put to uo other use. Georgia and Alalmina are beginning to make these thing* at home, and ni» Infinitely greater variety of article* for the lirlng, while the marble Is being used In Increasing quantity in the construction of building*. The wide range In character of manufacturing in Georgia and Alabama la Illus trated pointedly In industries definitely projected during tho past seven days as reported by The Index. A company ha* been organized ot waycross, G*„ with capital atock of 1100,000, to sink oil wells In a south Georgia section. In Atlanta, a company has been formed with capital stock of $150,000 to engage In mining In north Georgia. A company has been organised nt Birmingham, with capital stock of $50,000, to manufacture hot pot* for conveying slog and refuse away from fur nace*. A coal brinuettlug plant will bo established, at Birmingham. At Way- cross. On., n $100,000 company will establish a saw mill, crate factory and furni ture factory. A large lumber plant will be established lu the mldit of an extensive timber tract near Brunswick, Gs. Among other Industrial plants to be establish ed a* reported by The Index are sand-lime brick plant, Bn Inbridge, On.; canning factory. Huntsville, Ala.; ice factory, llfdmont. Ala.; and ice factory enlarge ment. Waycross, Gs.; laundry, Dalton, Ga.: mining, Sumter county and Polk coun ty. Georgia; street railway system. B*lnbrldge, Ga.. with line to Amsterdam, On.; $100,000 railway terminal shops, Balnbrtdft. Ga.; refrigerating plant, Savannah, Ga.; plant for manufacturing street •weeper*. Atlanta; syrup refinery. Columbus, Ga. “Construction news contain# Items of much Interest, the following being some of'those reported: One-story bank building, to be constructed of marble nt a coat of $65,000, Dothan, Ala.; four business buildings. Bessemer, Ala.; thirteen res idences, Itoauoke, Ala.; thirty-four residences, Gadsden, Ala.; two libraries, four churches, three-story hotel, Athens, Ga.; five school buildings. Pythian castle, Kwalnsboro, Ga.; numerous residences. Including one to cost $10,000, at Anniston, Ala.; $13,000 chapter house, Birmingham, Ain.; theater to be built by company capitalized at 140,000, Gadsden, Ala., and slaughter house, Savannah, Gn. Madi son, Ga.. has voted a $50,000 bond Issue for building sewera and water works and enlarging lighting plant; Covlngtou, (In., has voted 160,000 of bonds for couatructtug sewers and water works. “Land company has purchaaed over $00 acre* of land at Itoanoke, Ala., and will place building Iota upon the market. Building lota will be offered nt public sale nt Blakely, Ga.; Eastman. Ga., and Milieu, Gn. “Five banks to be established and eighteen new corporation* with aggregate minimum capital atock of $1,006,500 are reported." DOCTOR ON CHRISTIAN 6CIENCE. To the Editor of The Georgian: Recently I waa called by the Chris tian Science healers to diagnose a case of organic heart disease In an other wise healthy young woman thirteen days before she died. I explained to the healers In charge of her case and afterwards to Immediate relatives, the patient’s condition and that she had a chance to regain comfortable health under proper professional care. I was called back to treat her the day before she died. It was too late. The best that could be done for her failed. I do not know under Just what unction and guise of Christian Scien tific philosophy the healers console themselves at such a sad and unneces sary hour, except It be that such dis astrous failures are caused by. the great current of thought In the general com mon mind opposed to their truth. I hadn't the discourtesy to dispute It when I heard one member aay all had been done that could be done. It was wretchedly untrue. The healer to whom I earlier diagnosed her disease(?) as heart disease, sought to enlighten me with the observation that the latest most scientific medical work on the heart taught that the heart was of sec ondary Imporance to tho pituitary bodies of the brain. So, with the dan ger that a little learning gives, he was, unwittingly perhaps, giving consider ation to a material body rather than their spiritual view of the case. He also stated that he would not have undertaken.to treat a certain oth er cose which he knew of me treating previously, and which was simple dys entery that another Christian Scientist healer had let almost die. Again In thl* expression he betrayed his utter Ignorance as to the Impor tance of each case and as to which one he might be able # to cure or as to which one would Just get weir without apy treatment, as happens approxi mately when the Christian Scientist credits himself or herself with any cure of physical disease. I’m not saying the smallest bit against the Christian Scientists' religious practices, for I re vere them ns being the' most refined and spiritualised and sweet tempered of any Christian soct In the loving kindness of their thoughts and lives. I know It’s very disappointing to them when they so woefully fall to cure “all manner of disease" as divine history credits the first apostles with doing. I've often thought that it did seem such a power might be given to the devout soul In the twentieth cen tury as well as In the first century, who could get close enough to the great loving heart of God. But I'm willing that there Is much we can’t under stand. "He who knows won't tell, and he who tells doesn’t know.’’ The mind of the Christian Scientist that there la no sin, except the sin of thinking so, among men here below, creates In them a very high altitude of Christian char acter. Thoughts are father# to deed# and lives and destinies. It’s a very lmppy soaring of imagina. tlon above thl« mundane sphere, but putting off our wings and bidding the guardian spirit of our nerlal Improvis ing* depart and coming down from Mother Spirit to Mother Earth we take a sobes thought. Now' the vision Is “seen through a glass darkly." We hear but a "still small voice" from out of the great depth of distance. We grope through tho darkness and reach out with effort to touch but the hem of His garment that virtue may come Into us. We remember now that we are trammeled about by a "tenement of clay that doth so easily beaet us." \\ e are In this part, mortal as well as Im mortal, finite as well as Infinite; "this corruption shall put on Inoorruptlon. This body is bruised and broken and pained and diseased till our reason and mind are dethroned In the delirium of a sick bed or within the walls of an In sane asylum; for those diseased In mind were first diseased In body, quite always. Every doctor know* the mind may Influence the body very greatly. With >1* average intelligence and mul tiplied experience In psycho-therapy he knows best the philosophy of "laugh and grow fat" and that ugly natures or minds create lean and lank dyspeptics. But the fact has not hypnotised him or eclipsed every other vision of his hor izon. 1 suspect the body Influences the mind more than the mind Influences the body. 1 do know it seems that those who have suffered most from "thorns In the flesh" seem to develop the no blest spirits and natflres. This seems so much the rule of fact that we have become accustomed to the saying, "The ARMMAVY ORDERS —AND— MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS Army Orders. Washington, Oct. 16.—Brigadier-General Charles W. Harrnh, Michigan National Guard, to garrison school, Fort Wayne. First Lieutenant Ivan McKay, First In fantry, Nebraska National Guard, to garri son school. Fort Crook. Second Lieutenant Joseph-A. Atkina. Six teenth Infantry, In addition to other duties, nssume charge construction work nt Fort Logan H. Boots, relieving First Lieutenant Frank It. Lang, Ninth Infantry. Navy Orders. Commander F. R. Stubb*. detached naval station, Charleston, to navy yard, New' York. Movement of Vessels. ArrlYed-reOctobpr 11: ltockat at Norfolk. Charleston, St Louis I’erry and Preble at Magdalena Bay. October 12: Abarenda at Lamberts Point, Louisiana at Hnprod Bay, Arethusa and Vesuvius nt Boston, West Vir ginia and Pennsylvania nt Mare Island. Maryland at San Francisco. Florida nnd Arkansas at Baltimore. October 1$: Prairie nt Norfolk, Minnesota at Newport, Connec ticut nt navy yard, New York; Wasp at Mnmnroneck. , Sailed—October 12: Tennessee and Wash ington, from Ilamptou Hoads for Trinidad; Aretbasa, from Cape Cod Bay for Boston; Saturn, from Marc Island for Magdalena Bay; West Virginia and Pennsylvania, from Kan Francisco; Florida nnd Arkansas, from Annni>olln for Baltimore; • Prairie, from League Island for Norfolk, thence to Balti more: Minnesota, from Newport for Ilnmp* tou Bonds; Connecticut, from New Loudon for navy yard, New York; Wasp, from York: Marietta, from navy yard, Norfolk, for Puerto forte,, Honduras. Itatetgh placed out of rotmnlsalon, navy yard, Mare island, October 12. Lord loveth whom He chaateneth.” The Christian Scientists In denying the actuality of matter may be scien tifically up to date In discarding the old "atomic theory" of the material atom and accepting that all the differ ent material evidences are varied con ditions of one force, the unit of which Is the Ion and not the atom. In mate rial science or God In Christian Science. Let It be true. If we shall claim to know, that all Is spirit. Then It was the spirit of the morphine which the fond mother heart thought was calo mel that took the spirit of the only baby child to the. spirit world. The doctor. In hla honest Ignorance, says: "Morphine killed the baby.” The re sult la always the same to the mother’s now lonely heart, by whatever name or explanation. The reason why Chris tian Scientist* have records of cures they make Is the same reason why Pe- runa and every patent medicine, divine healer, "new thought" healer, magnetic healer, conjuror, buckeye or other tails, man cures. Doctors also get credit sometimes for much, the greater part of which nature did for hi* patient. In deed, "vis medlcatrlx naturae" Is ax iomatic with the doctor. Some of my best friends, and among the most charming people I know, are Christian . Scientist,. Their purity of spirit and the loftiness of their Ideal, Is very winning. They are eo spirit ualized that they are ethereallaed, hyp notized. They are closer to the Chrlet life, ae a body, than any people I know. Christ dispensed His love, truth and heSMng without money or price. Chris tian Scientist healers charge a price, and take the money of the deluded victim whom they can not heal of hi* bodily disease. They heel themselves. Doctors fall. They recognize their humanity and Inadequacy. They often find it proper to disabuse patients’ minds of the traditional belief In medl. cine fur every little ailment, which may adjust Itself or need some correc tion In hygiene, diet, exerclee, frequent, ly psycho-therapy. I’ve heard chrla- tlan Scientists say that no medicine ever had any effect on patients' dis eases, except as the patient had con- fidence In the medicine or the doctor. Wc accept the fractional truth In the statement. But we challenge that there Is not a Christian Scientist In the state who has faith enough In such a claim to put It to the test against the hypo dermic medicine case, which every doctor carries In hie Inner pocket, and In which he carries morphine, a sur cease for pain; atropla. that dilate, the eye pupil and renders dry the throat nnd mouthr pilocarpine, that does the reverse; apomorpbia. that makes one have presentment, of cross ing the English channel upon a choppy sea; strychnine, that can stimulate your heart and other muscles, even unto a spasm. 1 view Mrs.-.Eddy as one of the CORNER ALABAMA AND BROAD STREETS. T F you are thinking of opening a bank account, or of changing the location of your present one, we would invite you to look into the facilities of fered by this institution. We are confident that we can help you. Consult our officers. To the Editor of The Georgian: Georgia continues her upward course In the sisterhood of states. It Is pleas ant to contemplate the onward sweep In the realm of morals. I have ob served her victories from afar through the International press. The recent state victory for state prohibition causes one to fling to the winds the nice decorum and stereotyped ecclesi astical English formalities and Join the orthodox in a tvholeeouled “hallelu jah!” I congratulate my friend, Dr. L. G. Hardman, on piloting so successfully such a worthy bill through the sen ate. I congratulate the voters of that commonwealth on their manifest moral stamina, and The Georgian on Its de cided stand In the magnificent edito rial. parts of which I have seen in sev eral English papers. I have nn Idea ot the agencies at work In achieving* such a victory since I have helped to light several local battles, the last be ing at Rome. I have ever stood an uncompromising enemy of King Alco hol, but my residence, travel and ex- f ierlenccs In merry old England have ncreased my opposition a hundred fold. England may fcc honey-combed with a wealth of history and be a treasure house of rare antiquities; her magnificent cathedrals may bear aloft unparalleled lessons In Christian hero ism; her great naval fleets may be marshaled for public Inspection to the manifest discomfiture of other powers In the world's competition for suprem acy on the high seas; she may chal lenge the attention, adinlratlqn and Jealousy of nations In the rapid trans- Atlantic service of her floating palaces; the Marltnnln, 790 feet long. 88 feet wide, with 43,000 tons displacement, may soon break all previous records on her maiden trip by crossing In less than five days from Queenstown to New York; but all Is not peace along the Thames, nor sunshlno In the affairs of state. The continuous general financial depression, the Increasing army of the unemployed, the concen tration of population Into congested centers, the alarming statistics on race suicide, the - startling aspects of the vast slum dlve&, constitute a few side lights on the seamy side of English life; but that which overwhelms the conscientious observer Is tho drink curse. To my mind, there Is no place In America that will compare In this respect with conditions here. There Is a saloon on nearly every corner, and In every village and hamlet. Wo have seen the greater part of London. Liv erpool and several provincial towns, also much of the country and village life. Our first vacation was passed on Purbeck Island, In Dorsetshire. A re cent vacation was spent on the Isle of Wight. There are to be found villages undisturbed by modern modes of trans portation and characteristically Dick ensian In their leading traits today; but wherever there are evidences of life, there are notices of wines and spirits for sale. I have seen out-of-the-way places, where a store of any kind could not be found, but a little Inn with "lunches, teas and spirits." The worst side of the curse here Is that women and children go to the saloons and drink. It Is common to see women at certain hours, In large num bers. going to the saloon with pitchers for beer and hot gin. Mr. G. ft. Sims wrote a series of articles to The Tri bune of London In which he tells of the prevalence of this awful practice in Lohdon. I may give readers of The Georgian the gist of Mr. Sims’ start ling revelations nt another time. Eng land’s greatest curse Is drink, and If a change Is not wrought, Ichabod must sooner or later bo written In largo letters at the entrance of this wonderful mother country. ERNEST C. MOBLEY, Pastor Church of Chi 1st, Southampton, England. From Death to Life By RENE VAILLANT Under the golden roofs of tho Imperial pnlace ot Seoul, the capital of Korea, there Is great sorrow, nnd aobhlng la heard every where. Damon-Kou, the favorite daugh ter of the emperor. Is dying. No sickness has attacked her beautiful young body, but she Is dying from sorrow at being help lessly disgraced In her own eyes, ns wall ns in those of everybody Inside the palace. Tho hands of n slave have touched her, nnd the god* do not nllow n Korean prin cess to survive such n disgrace. Still, It happened during the night, when f*rt °J. ,he took fire, and the hands that disgraced her were those that saved her from perishing In the flames. But this clrcnmstauee does not turn away the wrath on ff, r / . She ought to have killed herself, but did not find strength to do so In the face of her mother's sorrow. But the gods were waiting for her death, The flowers that were placed near her bed withered suddenly, ns If touched by n pot- sonous breath, nnd the birds that wefe brought to her that their song might make her forget her sorrow fell dead In their “IS death wo, the only thing that could . lacat* t? * — - thin won „ __ her bountiful body. Tho empress boil made her bed lie moved into the open square that the guidon ray, or tho iuu might ehecr her up. but hardly hod tho golden lied lieen moved outride when dark cloud, pothered and obscured ttrabrtgtfi nun, and the nlr grew damp and Not even the nim would look nt Damon- Kou. Thou the beautiful girl sighed, her head fell beck on the pillow, n pallor over- •proad her face and nhc breathed no longer. The emnre.s gave n ery of deapalr, cov ered her bond nnd threw beraetf upon the ground. Her deareat child waa dead. The wlio palace phyaiclana came, looked at the frail body and pronounced Damon- Kou dead. The aun came oat again, the bird, began singing nnd the withered flower, rattle bnck to new life. Damon-Kou had paid the penalty with her life and the god, were nu longer angry. With Imperial aptemlor Damon-Kou'a fu neral took place. She waa placed In a caa- ket of pnrn gold, which waa carried through the streets of Seoul to the grove where stood the family tomb of tbo emperor', nnceators. But the coatly golden raaket gave rlae to evil thoughts In the hearts of wicked men. A few nights Inter they sneaked to the grove. Dreed hail drlveu away all othor thoughts. They wanted to break open tho golden casket, throw out tho Imdy of tho young prlm-esa and floe with tho gold to a far-away place, to Japan, where they eould aelt It for money. They begun thrlr work. The hand of dno of the scoundrels held n Ignlern, wbk-b-shed a dim light Ih tho room -where Damon-Kou wna sleeping her last sleep In her bed of gold. They broke- open the cover with a Jlinmv and. cluttering, the mass of gold fell to the ground. Then something terrible happened. By the light of the Inntern tho deseenton of the tomb saw arlee from the open coffin a figure clad In white that stretelied ont Ite arms ni If to aelse them and they did not doubt that It wna the ghost of the dead girl coming bark to punish them for their duatnrilly crime. With crlen of torror tliev dropped Inntern nnd toole and rushed out of the tomb Into the darkness of tho night. Their cries, however*, alarmed others, and the news that an attempt had lieeu made to rob tlie Imperial tomb spread like wildfire until It reached the palace. The emperor himeelf. surrounded by hie bodyguard, came rushing to the tomb nnd by the light of scores of flaming torrhra he saw hie dead child brought back to life once more. She wna carried Into the pnlace and the physicians said that she would not live, that the gode had allowed her to return only to drive away the rnbhere, but morning enme nnd Damon-Kou still lived. The sun rose nnd sent Its golden rays Into her chamber, n bird came through the open window, alighted on her hend nnd began to slug and tho flower. In the palace gardens filled the air with sweeter fragrance then ever. Then It was elenr to every one tbat Dainou-Kon had really returned to life. She had been dead nnd burled and had thus atoned for the dlegrnre that had rested upon her. TheTtoils iltd not want a second sacrifice, nnd heforo the resurrected Damon- Kou was n life of Joy and bapplnrsa. devoutest aouls who has lived. I be lieve Alexander Dowle was pious, hon est, sincere. I believe the artist who put away his wife and mother of his child for his affinity was honest with himself perhaps, but I believe the Ghrlstlan Science healer is the most deluded personage among men, and that his premises carried to their le gitimate conclusion would make us an gels with astral bodies and without need of food and material necessities for our material bodies. Yours for "mens sana In corpora sano,” MEDICU8. THE PROPOSED CANAL. To the Editor of The Georgian: Ideal conditions commercially and defensively can only be secured by the utmost Improvement of our waterways, their connection by canals of national importance.- The Atlantic coast Is con nected with Chicago by the Great Lakes and the Erie canal by canalization le to be connected with the gulf via Be. Louis and New Orleans. The Raritan and Delaware, the Delaware nnd Chesa peake, the Dismal Swamp, the approved canal and canalization through North Carolina to Beaufort Inlet, thence canal and Improvements to St. Marys. Ga., thence up tho St. Marys river through the Okefeqpkee Swamp, down the Su- wanee to the gulf, will, when completed, give for military purpose* and protect ed passage nearly 4,000 miles In length for the safe shipment of military sup plies, for the quick reinforcement by torpedo and submarine boats of any threatened point. The completion of the James river and Knnahwa. the con. structlon of the Atlantic nnd Great Western canals would give with the St. Marys and Suwanee canal and the Erie canal and Great Lakes four water connections of the Atlantic ocean with the Weat. The Improvement of ull of our riven-:, the opening of these canals, connection thereby of every portion of our country east of the Rocky Moun tains with every other portion, will cost large money, but many hundred mil lions of dollars less than France, with far less than one-third of our popula tion. less than one-tenth of our mileage of rivers, has expended, and as judged by results, wisely expended. We are a great country; It Is difficult for us to realize how great our internal commerce exceeds twenty-six billions of dollars pet- year. Our foreign com merce exceeds three billion dollars yearly, has doubled in loss than ten years. Our Internal commerce Is In- * 1 creasing nt the rate of about two bil lion dollars a year, with about one- eighteenth of the world’s total popula tion. \Ye handle about one-eighth of the world’s foreign commerce. From a debtor we have become a creditor nation. We are rapidly narrowing the desert areas of the West by irrigation and cultivation. We shall ateadlly narrow the area of swamp lands by drainage and reclamation. We shall toon extend qur dominion over the oceans In a great revival of a great merchant marine, In which wo were once proudly pre-eminent. This will turn our wonderful ports Into vast ship yards. Great as Is our growth, we are In our youth as a nation; ore upon the threshold of still more marvelous achievement. If we extend nur trans portation facilities as rapidly as we are increasing freights, there Is no limit the Imagination may aet to our future development. , The canal to unite the Mississippi river, the entire Weat and Northwest, with the Georgia seacoast, Is not only a vital link In the great chain of water way Improvement, It Is an Immediate necessity. There Is a reason for the construc tion of this canal, uniting the West and East, other than defensive or com mercial reasons; namely, a geographi cal reason. The North and South railroads, th# facility of Intercourse thus created have done more to establish friendly and fraternal sentiment between the North and the South than forty-two years of fraternal oratory. Each great transportation chain be tween the West and East binds th* West and East more closely together. C. P. GOODYEAR. The harvest festival was being held In Old Windsor Parish church, Eng land. and a verse In the Psalm. "Thou makest darkness and It Is night," hsd Just been reached, when all the electrio lights went out. A number of candles were borrowed from neighboring houses, and these were fixed upon th* pews so that the service might be con cluded.