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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NEWS) JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. T. B. GOODWIN, Gen’l Mgr. Published Every Afternoon, (Except Sunday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 3 Writ AUbsma St., Atlanta, Ga. Subscription Rates! One Year HR sk Months Three Months I.® one Month lb Carrier, Per Week Telephones conueetlnf all depart* menu. lying distance terminals. Smith A Tbompeon, adrertlalng rep- revntatlrea for all territory outside of Georgia, If too hare any trouble getting THE GEORGIAN AND NF.tVS. telephone the circulation department and barn It promptly remedied. Telephones: Hell «W7 mala; Atlanta 4(01. Subscribers desiring THE GEOR GIAN AND NEWS dWiiitlnned must notify this office on the dnte of expira tion; otherwise, It will lie continued st the regular subscription rates until notice to stop la received. In ordering a change of address, please give the old ss well as the new address. It Is desirable that all communica tions Intruded for nnhlleallon In THE GEORGIAN AND SEWH be limited to WO words In lenath. It la Imperative that they lie signed, ss an evldeace of good fnlth. Rejected manuscripts will not lie returned unless stnmps are sent for the purpose. THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS prints no unclean or objectionable advertis ing. Neither does It print whisky of any liquor ads. OUR PLATFORM: THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS stands for Atlanta's own ing Ha own gas and electric light plants, as It now owns Its water works. Other cities do this and get R s as low as fid cents, with a profit the city. This should lie done at oure. THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS hellevas that- If street railways can lie operated successfully liy European cities, as they are. tjierc la no-good reason why they can not lm so nper- Sled here. But we do not believe this can be done now, and It may lie aoroe years before we are ready fur so Ida as undertaking. Still Atlanta shnuld rot Its face In that direction NOW. The Atlanta Georgian baa apruug another presidential tick et. It la Hoke Smith and W. L. Douglaa.—Moultrie Observer. : Well, doesn't that shoe lit the situa tion In Georgia? The Atlanta Georgian has dis covered that Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southvrorth was once a school teacher Vnd that her star pupil was Admiral Bob Evans. What's the use of bringing this up agalrat “Fighting Bab" at this late day?— Jackson (Mas.) News. We are Inclined to doubt Our own discovery since the recent epistolary tvar In Hampton Roads. "Fighting Hob" would have used gentler English If he had come from such a teacher. Some Interesting details have leaked out as to the French policy of naval construction during 1908, says The London Globe. Altogether there will be 98 units under construction In the yards, public and private, but only 30 will really be completed, while 53 will be carried further toward comple tion, Including two Droadnaughta. The only new vessels laid down will be ten destroyers and five submarines or submerslbles. The 30 to be fin ished Include two armored cruisers, twelve destroyers and sixteen sub marines or submerslbles. Knoxville, after November I, will be without saloons, but the ' saloon men are nearly all going b - to stay and will make money and • contribute more to their own prosperity and welfare and that of the city In other lines. Many of them are generoui and flue qualified men. They are loyal to Knoxville, despite the prohibition wave, which. Drab sweeping over Knoxville, Is now sweeping over the entire South.—Knoxville Sen tinel. This Is true of Atlanta saloon men In their attitude toward the new order of things effective January 1. And why not? Saloon men have Just as much good sense as men In other lines of trade and just as much love for and pride In their city. Nobody In Georgia who reada the Atlanta dally papers can have failed to notice haw the artists of those papers csrlcatnre the farm ers. An Atlanta artist's represen tation of a farmer looks about as much like any farmer that Is ever seen In Georgia or any other part of the South as a mule or Jackass looks like a thoroughbred horse. The trouble with these Atlanta artists seems to be that they have absorbed the Yankee Idea In cari caturing the farmer, and stick to It. Millie the State Fair Is being held In Atlanta It might be a good time for the Atlanta artists to go out and form the acquaintance of a few real Georgia farmers and get an Idea about wbat sort of look- - Ing animals they really are.—Al- ' bany Herald. Now this Is serious, and it Is partial ly true. The fault is fashionable but not malicious. The cartoonist, we will grant, never seeks to flatter. And he lakes rather the standard type than the real likeness. It Is only fair to say that the standard of the farmer 'as advanced so far in clothes and In quality that no type of the past can Ally represent the modern firmer of to<!ty. The Herald points ua to re form. MR. ROOSEVELT LOSES A POINT. Perhaps tbe best proof that the president Is sincere In saying that he Is not a candidate for re-nomlnatlon. Is his apparent Indifference to the strategic points In current politics. Here In Atlanta he missed a point. The directors of the State Fair urged upon him a visit to Georgia at this time. They have subsequent ly sent him another argent letter asking him to visit Atlanta and close the fair on next Saturday. Suppose he had accepted. Mr. Bryan has been here. He came, be saw, he conquered. He made three magnificent speeches in Atlanta. But the total of all the crowds that heard him did not number more than 6,000 people. Perhaps 6,000 at the outalde made hla audience at the fair grounds on Saturday. He spoke to forty people at the luncheon, and he spok i to 400 people at the dollar dinner on Saturday night. If Mr. Roosevelt had followed Mr. Bryan on the following Saturday, which la the coming Saturday, there Is no man who doubts that the crowd and the reception accorded tbe president would have' laid in the shade the reception given to the great Nebraskan. There would have been twenty thousand people within the exposition gates on that day. The streets of Atlanta would have been alive with people and pulsing with welcome. The multitude would have gone wild over the president Grant that no small part of this would have been due to the great office represented. Even so, but find me the thinking observer who will not agree that the largest part of It would have been a tribute to the ex traordinary popularity of the man. We have seen presidents. Including this one, many times before. We don’t see a man like Roosevelt once In a half century. And If therefore Roosevelt, In Atlanta, the capital of the South, could have utterly ecilpsed the Nebraskan's reception, just at this time when national Issues and men are crystallizing In the poplar gaze,- It tAtuld have gone far and wide as a visible and definite object lesson of the greater hold which the strenuous president has upon the people. -That the president Is a strong and masterful man. In all the great meaning of the word, ho one has need to argue. That he makes great speeches, whose sentences stick and live, Is equally true. That the peo ple wildly acclaim him all over the country is a fact to which St. Louis and Memphis and Vicksburg will bear recent witness. That they would have done so In Atlanta with even greater enthusiasm than they did two years ago, is well assured. And If they bad It would have gone to tbe presidents score In the final Issue which may yat be between these two great men. The Issues of politics are still chaotic. Once more Mr. Bryan'a star seems all radiant on the Democratic horizon. But the conventions are yet nearly ten months away, and tremendous things happen these days In a wonderfully sudden and unexpected way. There are possibilities unnumbered that the whole face of the politi cal map may be changed before spring. There are movements forming where strength can not be estimated In advance. There are changes and revolutions now working whose development may astonish the electorate. And In the midst of all these big and suggestive possibilities the pres ident has failed to utilize a strategic point at Atlanta, that would surely have had a potential bearing upon the issues of the year. Once more we record the Impression that Mr. Roosevelt does not real ly care to be president any more Just how. AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS SPOILING JAPAN. It Is beginning to bo evident that the adulation of the world for a real or imaginary military prowess has spoiled the Japs, and that the newspapers of America have done all and more than their share In devel oping the arrogance of the Mikado's people. It Is about time to stop it. Tbe general editorial comment In the dally press on the brawl over a broken window In a Jap laundry In San Frandsbo was more significant than even a bloody race riot. Nothing was said of tho promptness of the police In clubbing out the Incipient blaze of conflict. The points that seemed to Impress the editorialists were that tbe villain who broke the window was drunk and that the Japs fought fiercely. And we read again about the courage of the sons of Nippon superbly untainted by alcohol. And all the commentators on the laundry episode pointed with joy to their prowess In resisting the big white brawlers. - One universal chorus: “The Japs are fighters!” When our Italian friends scrap like wildcats, the usual comment, if any, la to doplore their quickness to fight. But the Jap, why, he’s quite different—editorially I Truth compels the revelation that the worthy people who were recon ciled to the bloody war with Russia because the victorious Japanese wero ‘.ee-totalers, based their rojololng on a myth. Nippon has become tho brewery center of Pacific Asia! It Is now learned, moroover, that the supposed Invincible vegetarian and un-alcoholic health of the Japan ese armies In Manchuria originated more In secreting statistics than In facts. The supposed marvels are fading, and the truly extraordinary phases now challenge attention. It la an unparalleled circumstance that tho press, In Europe, as well as America, can't rcslat the habit of halting the Japs as little deml-gods of war. And It la only human nature—white, or yellow, or black—to be dominated by reputation. "Of course,” says Paul Thleman, "the Jap la cocky. The power of the American pen has helped the power of his own sword! It Is only natural that the Individual Jap should fool obliged to vindicate his reputation as a fighter.” And tbe same psychological Impulse throbs In the Japanese national heart. The white world is now confronted with the mailed real ity of Ita Insistence—a Japan that believes Itself to be Invincible! But the least we can do In America, whose peace and tranquillity la moat in menace by the arrogance of Nippon, Is to let up on the laudation which Is swelling tho heads of the Japs, and depressing the forces that will inevitably be compelled to oppose them. Let the newspapers of America discard the wholesale tributes to UBdsf et|i jo Joins poteitujudun eqi„ ese." WILL OARMAOK GO BACK TO THE SENATE? The coming of Senator Carmack to Atlanta on the 29th recalls the very general love and admiration In which the brilliant Tennesseean is held In his own state and In the country at large. A very general Interest centers about the man throughout the country. It la perfectly well understood In Tenneaaee that the Hon. E. W. Carmack proposes to hlmaelf another career In the United 8tates senate. Such was the opinion of Democratic leaders In that state as far back aa last June, although the gossip met with emphatic denial at the hands of Mr. Carmack's friends. Apparently, however, the ex-senator has since ex plored the field with critical Industry and satisfied at least himself that the enterprise Is promiKng. for the announcement of his aspirations has very recently been made under circumstances which guarantee Its au thenticity. Mr. Carmack, says The Sun. expects to approach the toga by way of the governorship. The chief executive In Tennessee has ''the organiza tion" at hla command. Without that accessory Mr. Carmack might not control the legislature. Therefore Mr. Carmack first presents himself to a friendly public aa candidate for governor. It he can defeat tbe present In cumbent for re-election and have two years In which to convert to hla own personal uses a machinery which has almost always hitherto met every expectation, the chances all are that n well-trained band of statesmen will make him aenator by acclamation. There are difficulties In the way, of course. There are the primaries to begin with. But a shrewd and ag gressive politician, employing with vigor and discretion the forces that a governor may manipulate, can easily divert tbe primaries to his pgrposes. In a word, the governor hat every Imaginable advantage for the United States senate, provided he wishes to utilize his opportunities, and Is equipped with the Intelligence necessary to tbe utmost exploitation. Thus Mr. Carmack advances along the line of least resistance. Georgia of course has no call to meddle In the political affairs of Tennessee'. But It is at least no Impertinence to say that Georgia from the stand point of an observant Democracy would be glad to see the dashing ex-sen ator go back to Washington, where he was Juat In the rising sweep of hla fame when the only Bob Taylor fiddled him out of hla teat In the upper bouss. Growth an4 Progress of the New South The Georgian here record* each day some economic fact In reference to tbe onward progress of the Sooth. BY JOSEPH B. LIVELY State Mine Inspector Rhlflett, of Tenneaaee, haa Just Issued his annual report. In which Is ufintnlueii a statement of the amount of coal mined in Tennesaee dur ing the year 190tf., Extracts from his report nro ns follows: j The total value of all coal mined was $7,565,296, sn Increase over the preceding year of $1,066,421. The total number of tons mined was 6,272.457, an increased pro duction over INS of. 719,881 tons. The average value per ton waa $1.26. The total amount nafd’ for labor In the mines waa $4,844,266, and the average - , w thirty-three fat^l accident!, of which twenty wage per day was $2.07. There were resulted from falling substances.* There w» them waa 76j, 1,767 outside, u There were rom falling substances.* . . were 140 mining machines In u»o, and the numt>er of ton* produced by 767,456. The total number of coal miners employed waa 8,9® Inside and !e, a grand total of 10,736. were 1.602 coke ovous In blast out of n total of 2.717 In the state, giving H to 544 men, who were paid during the year $195,725. The value of coke nuu me v*iue in tons of coke produced was 849,672. ... Campbell county was the banui. . 830 tous, followed by Claiborne, with 1,< Campbell county was the banner coal-producing county In the state, with 1,298,- “ ‘ * "" “ 1,032,316 tons. Anderson came third with 765,- In addition to several Urge coal and timber transactions recently reported, an other Important deal has been announced at Winchester, Va., to the effect that 3/essrs. Guff/, ticott sod other Pittsburg capitalists hare bought orer 30,000 acres of land In Frederick county, Virginia, and Hampshire and Morgan counties, w ' Mf Virginia, through their agent, II. L. Wise, of Berkley Springs. W. Va. I DINKY’S EPPY GRAMS | By GEORGE V. HOBART (Copyright, 1907. by American-Journf I - Examiner.) D ER vorid likes to aide mlt der chent dot haa der retty caah. Dare ne(er vaa a man ao lazy dot he vould not vork a friend. Ven a man la anxtoua to keep your aecret keep him anxious. Truth la atranger dan Fiction, but Fiction haa der happleat finish. A tlggllsh situation nefer gets a big laugh from der parties concerned, yet. Der girl dot hesitates la lost In thought should der veddlng dress. Some peoples fleh for compliments hard enough to catch a sea serpents. Necessity Is der mother dot puts der trousers of Clrcus- Der automobubble goes fast, but sooner or later der ambulance catches It up. A vise man Is vise until he begins to talk about how vise he Is, den he uddervlse. I half a great curiousness to jsee der man dot believes he alvaya gets his money's verth. Money can not buy happiness, but eferybody living Is vllllng to make der eggsperlment. A great man can make any business greater, but a small oyster can not do much mlt a big stew. Luff Is not blind, und if you doan'd believe me look at der neckties some vlmmen buy delr husbands, yet. D. DINKELSPIEL, Per George V. Hobart. MADDOX-RUCKER BANKING CO. CORNER ALABAMA AND BROAD STREETS. F OR over a quarter of a century this bank has paid particular attention to commercial ac counts and is still prepared and desires to extend tc firms, corporations and individuals every facility consistent with sound banking. LONDON, WORLD’S METROPOLIS, IS A PERPETUAL PUZZLE A Rainy Day in the Canebrakes By WEX JONES. When tbe rain breaks In tbe canebrakes all tbe guides and all the hunter* Ijtv aside their guns and bowtea: leave alone the bears and grunters; Quit the game or playing hob with the pussies kuown aa bob, And, biding from the damp by tbe fireside of the camp, Spin each other stories Impressed with truth’s own stamp. Old Bill Scruggs, who's made rugs of n million billion bears. Starts with "I remember (others settle In their chairs) Near this plneo I ran a race with a l>ear of dreadful mien. Which had pawa ao fringed with claws that I flew across tho scene, I wouldn’t cast no strictures on tho so-called moving plctnres, But on moving they wero aknn by that memorable run— Twenty-mile In twenty minutes was tho dlstnnce that I done; Till In jumping o’er a house I took n sudden souse- lilt too low—hit my toe—and the bear waa snuffling ‘Rous!’ •All Is over, little rover!' for the end had come, I felt. As I wondered bow these lunch hooks would lacerate my pelt.” ••What did save you, comrade?" cried all tbe crowd that snt beside. "By my troth, Juet a moth!"—and eyes were opened wide— "A moth came along, with • flicker and a flur. And the bear beat It home to save bit costly fur." All the hunters clapped their hands and cheered him without bias, Save a toothful one In khaki, who muttered "Ananias!" PEOPLE AND THINGS GOSBIP FROM THE HOTELS AND THE STREET CORNERS When things go wrong with the plpee and plumbing a Pine street man In the future will seek the aid of the plumber, regnrdlezs of any question of cost. ARMY-NAVY ORDERS / AND MOVEMENTS OF VE8SELS. Army Orders. Washington, Oct. 22.-Cnptaln Phillips E. M. Walker, Twelfth Infantry, to general hospital, Washington bnrrncks. , Major Jacob Q. Galbraith, Inspector-gen- Up to ad day or so ago he didn’t feel* oral from office of Inspector-general of that way—In fact, felt that the whole Washington, to Omnba ns lnspector-gensral tribe of plumbers was a pirate organ isation, and he wouldn’t be stood up by any of ’em. r*ou!d do his own plumbing as good as the best of ’em, and save sundry dollars. Opportunity came along to make good. And he fell down miserably on the Job. Drain pipe to the kitchen sink choked, and wouldn't yield to the or dinary treatment of such ailments. "Dan’l,” said the good wife, "wish you would send a plumber to tlx the kitchen drain." "What?" he vociferated. "Never. I won’t pay two or three of them fellows four dollars an hour to come out here and rob me. Let me at that sink, and I’ll have it open in a Jiffy.” * His wife looked skeptical, but went along to lend first aid to the Injured. Attaching the garden hose to the water pipe, he jammed the other end of It far down In the choked pipe. • "Turn on the water. Hay, It la work ing fine. Huh, don't talk about plumb ers to me, when I can do these things this way. Why—” About that time a geyser spouted up Into hla face, 'drenching him to the bone and flooding the goom. The ^ater had decided to return, and did It with a suddenness and rudeness quite dls tresslng. That did not feaxe him, howeYer, and he went at It more cautiously next time. There was no gush of water back Into the room, and he began to exult again. Then a next door neighbor burst Into the house and shouted excitedly: "I don’t know what’a the matter, but water is just pouring off your roof. It’e as clear as a whistle, and I don't know what causes It.” That obstruction in the kitchen drain had forced the water out of the stand pipe on the roof, and a merry little cataract was pouring off the roof. "Say, send for plumbers—as many as you want." said the disgusted house holder. "If X monkey- with this thing any longer I’m likely to blow the root off or flood the north side." And he paid the heavy plumbing charges without a murmur. H. C. Randolph Is at hla home, 88 Pulliam street, slowly improving from the Injuries he received ten days ago near Jacksonville while inspecting a boiler. He reached Atlanta Friday night. He Is suffering from burns about the face, hands and feet and it will be some weeks before he Is able to be out. Judge F. J. Marshall, of College Park, and a poultry fancier who fe one of the best experts in Georgia, left Tuesday for the Jamestown Exposition, where he will officiate aa judge In the K ultry department. O. E. Muse, of catur, and C. W. Fowler, of Smyrna, will have fine displays of poultry In the show, which will be held ut the big exposition. Maine to California and from tbe Great lakes to the gulf Al U. Held Is known by every man. Woman aud child. department of the Missouri. Captain Alexander M. Miller, Jr., quarter master, to Philippines. Colonel Charles L. llelxmnn, assistant sur geon-general, will proceed to his home nnd await retirement. Second Lieutenant George II, Adams, Third Infantry, Michigan National Guard, Is authorised to attend and pursue a course of Instruction nt the garrison school. Fort Brady. Cantsln Lytle Brown, corns ot engineers, will in? relieved from staff duty November 1 nml Join Jilt proper station. Navy Orders. Lieutenant Commander C. .8. Williams, detached low’s to duty In connection with general l>onrd, Washington. Lieutenant Commander A. L. Norton, de tached navy yard, Washington, to Iowa aa executive officer. Lieutenant C. Rbackford, detached May flower to navy yard, Washington. Lieutenant V. 8. Warren, detached com mand Worden to Truxton. Movements of Vessels, Arrived—October 18: Caesar at Bradford, Qulroa at Shanghai, Maryland nt 8nn Fran cisco, Adams at I*nlermo, Sicily. Hulled—October 17: Ahercuda, from Lam bert Point for navy yard, N. Y. October 18: Htrlngham. from Newport to navy yard; Hhuhrick, Stockton and Delong, from New- port for nnvjr yard, New York; Milwaukee, from 8nn trnnclsco for Magdalena Bay, New York; West Virginia, from Nan Fran cisco for Manta Barbara channel; Pennsyl vania, Colorado end Maryland, from ban Francisco for 8tntn Barbara Channel. Maryland returned to San Francisco to re cover lost anchor. Hist placed In commission at Newport as tender to second submarine flotilla, compos ed of Viper anil Cuttlefish, to be jollied by Octopus Inter. The Viper and Cuttlefish ordered In commission torpedo station. New- |H»rt. To the Editor of The Georgian: London, the world's metropolis, Is n per petual ptissle. Tbe National Art Gellery I* perhaps the finest representative collection of tine paintings to be found anywhere. Tbe British Museum, with Its great nnd varied collections of Incalculable value, ranks with the very best of ancient cities. Numerous other galleries aud museums form n charm ed chain of matchless worth to studeut. scholar and sage. Westminster Abbey aud St. Pauls Cathedral, each In Its own pecu liar interest, vies with the other for tbe public favor of the ever Increasing multi tudes who pass through Loudon euch sea son. The magtilflcent palaces aud stately mansions proclaim epoch-making events In the realms of royalty. The splendid bouses of parliament, nestling alongside the waters of tbe classic Thames, speak of the revolu tions nnd evolutions In that Imperial power which today virtually governs one-fifth of the world. Those narrow old streets lined with monotonous row’s of dingy buildings tell us of the dolnga of Chaucer, Garrick, Johnson. Shakespeare, Blnckstoue, Milton and Dickons. Africa Is not the only land of paradoxes. London Is a city of paradoxes profound; for, notwithstanding the civilising evidences just meutloned. .one may stnud ou the summit of Mt. Pauls nnd get the putrancing view In which appear ninny stately spires nnd pic turesque domes. But nt the same time, If the ear Is attuned to suffering, one may catch the <lying groans of the octogenarians who are being pushed Into eternity from sheer starvation. An official White Book lust published gives pathetic accounts, dur ing the past year, of forty-eight cases. If one’s heart is In syinpntb tk - family, who has walked 1 tbe streets to see hundreds. Mr. Jerome K. Jerome addressed a large congregation of men last Sunday at White- fish!* Tabernacle. lie referred to the eight millions In this country who do not know what dinner means, who are living the lives of wild beasts without tbt wild beasts' priv ilege of maklug n bee-line for his food when he sees It. In speaking of the great mini ber of this class who frequent the Tharnet embankment, Mr. Jerome said: "Why not throw* them over Into the river? Cold-blooded murder, you say. It is cold blooded murder to leave them there." It may be Mid that hundreds of these people would not work if they could get work. That la true, but thousauda of them try, nnd can not get work. It la impossible for you who have not to comprehend the meaning of this startling sltuntlon. Those conditions are attributable to several evident causes. Tbe great, fertile and beautiful landed estates lie practically Idle, tied up In old family rights. Tho flocking of country peo- '*■“ the past the coun- About - r — ((?• to the country. The frightful drain Incident t< tho Boer war, which, according to Sir Wil liam Butler, cost England 300,000,000 pounds sterling, or $1,500,000,000, to sny nothing of the loss of life, the subsequent suffering In England and tragic financial crash In tbe Transvaal. One of the greatest curses contributing to this condition of affairs Is tbe whisky traf fic . "*•* -“--* * *-*- ramiiy ngnis. i no nocKing or counti pie Into congested centers during th generation has almost depopulated th« try districts of England nnd Wales. who know that he has attained some dis tinction In a totally different role, that of an orator. At a Confederate memorial service held at i'amp*Phase, near t'olumbua, Ohio, last June Mr. Field delivered a memorial ad dress which was one of the m.mt eloquent ever beard on a similar occasion. This ad dress was read by Judge Uohert h Rodgers at a meeting of the Atlanta t’nmp of Con federate veterans Monday night, und It re ceived enthusiastic applause. Before the meeting adjourned the veter ans gave Mr. Field a uuaiilmous vote of thanks and instructed Judge Itodgers, ns historian of the camp, to notify hiui of their appreciation of bis eloquent eulogy of the t'oufeUerate dead. each year Is enormous. If JudlclonsFy used It would feed, clothe nnd house the great army of unemployed with a splendid surplus for general charities. The government's revenue from this Vmree annually Is quite $200,000,000. And the most appalling aspect I* that of the-mothers aud babies who flock to the too numerous saloons to drink, thus creating the "Babes’ Inferno.” Mr. George II. Sims, that sane Journalist, S ote n series of articles to the London lly Tribune. In which he rdnted his per sonal experiences while making a round of the saloons of London by night. These articles are free from that dramatic sen- sntlonnl element found In Mr. Hull Paine’s recital of his experiences. The articles oc casioned a flood of correspondence from every section of tho United Kingdom nnd resulted In the Tribune railing u grunt mass meeting, which was held In the Tribune Bnndexvous on March 4, 1907. Three hun dred representative men of the highest re ligious, medical, philanthropic, scientific, ed ucational and official positions entue to gether to discuss plans for reform, these **'“**“ *“ **e submitted to parliament. These facts ore to la* discussed in the pulpits of every denomination on October 27. I tuny say that 1 have had observe sotaf> of tho nppnre e Inferno To* nil It* - horror as It exists In our midst. I want to plead with those who have the framing of onr laws to make It henceforth Impossible for, children to bo slowly murdered In dram-shops in their mothers' anus. It Is my earnest wish to keep my advocacy of that cause clear of everything tbit may confuse the inutii Issue —for It Is nn Issue of life or death. There Is a widely spread opinion that while drink ing among men has decreased drinklug among women hns largely Increased. Not only are they In thq majority, but they stay longer than the men, and drink mors frequently. death rate por million from nlcohollxm In males showed an Increase of 6L5 per cent, while that for females showed an Increase of 184 per cent. I will show you tragedies of child-life so terrible that you will ask In amazement how such abominations can be permitted In a Christian land. You shall see the white poison that mad dens the mother’s bruin trickling from the lips of the baby, who has cried In vain for her breast. You shall see a fair, bine-eyed baby girl of 3 staggering drunk with the beer and brandy that a wouinn's hand has lifted to her Innocent lips. You shall pass with me to scene after scene that Is a foul blot upon our common humanity. Men, my brothers, nnd women, my sisters, you who love tittle children, do not turn a denf ear to their cry. They can not save themselves; but you can save them. My desire III these articles Is to put Into runvlnelng words the piteous cry to the great Heart of England that goes up night after night from the drink shambles, where the souls and bodies of teuder babies are slain. I saw, night after night, nud In b nr after bar. aeenea ot cruelty to help I css children so terrible thnt I felt to r. mufii silent about them would he on act of pas sive Inhumanity. Let me frankly acknowl edge thnt these scenes were a revelation to me. 1 did not know it was n common thing for a woman to force Peer aud spirits Into her baby’s mouth. It Is 11 o’clock on a bitterly cold Saturday night when wo pick our way through ii crowd of women to get near tho bar. Many of the women are ohl nml gray. They are bareheaded nud ns a rule have nn old shawl over their shoulders.\ Their daughters are also bareheaded nnd shabby—shawled—nml most of them carry a poor, thlo-faced baby. At 11:30, the saloons are so crowded that Into some of them It Is almost lm|HMslblo to edge one's way. In most of them the dominant note Is Ule child. The crowd Is so dense thnt the mothers hold the halites qjose to them, protecting their little heads with un outstretched elbow. I»own a side street there ore three or four dingy saloons which are so habitually filled at night with nursing mothers thnt they are locally known ss "The Cow-sheds." In a house lu this neighborhood 1 bare seen n woman, wrhose baby begun to cry In the crowded bar, take n dirty pipe from a man’s mouth, dip tbe stem into the liquor she was drinking, nnd thrust 12 Into tbs baby's mouth to "quiet It." A woman found lying drunk on tbe road way had a baby only 14 days old hr h*V side. Another w’otnan. who had Been drink ing nil the evening, was found carrying ber baby home, head downward, by one teg. I know n charming, blue-eyed, golden-hatred little girl of 8 years. Her grandmother was and Is a confirmed drunkard. The child's mother, a beautiful young woman, drank |j , amt one day when ,e oountry*cnlled In ■S- • t?p a fourth home. She spent every farthing In drink—and was found with her child In tbe workhouse. Tho family are not badly off. .Wipe, and spirits were much In evidence at th*»fu- nernl. At the funoral of the mother, who died of drink, the grandmother had made a bnbjr of 3 years drunk with wine and One hundred and twenty thousand lufknts continue to die annually lu the first year of liver SOUTHi PLACE FOR THE NEGRO. To the Editor of The Georgian: To the loyal white and colored people of the South there haa hedfe much said about the negro and hla ftfture in the South; some have paid the white man and the negro could not live together. Other* have gone ao far ns to say the negro's* worst enemy Is the white man of the Soutft. which has proven untrue and false against the negro's best In terest. After traveling In every section of this country and portions of Canada, vjewlng the conditions that nurround the negro and hla future, I am com pelled to concede that they have no bet ter and truer friends than the white people of the South, and I am glad to note that the race is rapidly learning this, nnd the sooner we can get the ma jority of them to understand that their Interest should be the white man’s In terest and the white man’s Interest should be theirs, the better It will be for the race and country. Of course, there are extremists In both races— men 'who for popularity or personal notoriety will sny things that they could let alone. But with all the an tagonisms never In the history of the world have any two distinct races lived side by side with more peace, happiness and prosperity than the negro and the white.man of Jhe South. They under stand each other better than any other two races known In history. Now the thing the negro most needs at this age of their struggle Is better __ to die i their lives. In "Little Italy," the Infant mortality for the Itnliaus lu this quarter during 1901-03 was 140 .P 1 */ L003, «• compared with 167 English living In tbe same quarter. l or 1901 there wero 259 per 1,000 for tbs English, as compared with 106 of the Ital ians. . Among the Itusalau and Polish Jews of Last End the rate of Infant mortality for 1905 was 119.3 per L000. and 163.1 among th«? English. This difference Is accounted ir largely on tho ground of the English others drinking. In theJIst of hnhltunl drunkards during the year 1909 there nr** 273 wotneu "block- listed." ns fompitred with only 78 men. There are horrors deeper nnd fouler than these that meet you now and then hi the Babes’ Inferno. Tbeso are Incomplete sidelights Into this world of great tragedies. For any mnu «»f heart and Intellect to nee aud know those awful horrors, wrought by drink, and not he nn opeu enemy to the accursed traffic Is more than I sin aide to understand. There are great agencies at work toward n reformation, hut It must necessarily l*e slow, since the government's hands nre *> black from rerenu clergymen nnd min tin' great breweries ... From the midst of this awful condition I shout a million congratulations to Georgia .Hid America for the work that has been and Is being dune slpiur this line. EH VEST C. MOIILEY. Pastor Church of Christ, Southnippton, England dustrial and religious training. When they, shall have fully developed along these lines of preparation they will be found useful and acceptable citizens. But let It not he forgotten that while quite " number of them have made progress and others ire coming for* ward, we are not Indipendent of our white neighbors, am} every negro should strive to cultivate by hopest and upright dealings the friendly co operation of the whjt^ people among whom they live, and teath our boys and girls not only to be pollti and manly to their own race, but to ivsry one. By so doing we will soon bi able to com mand the respect of thelbetter classes of all people and we shill rejoice and be made glad over thl friends and progress made by the rtee right here in the South, which Is t£ Paradise ot the country. Respectful!?. B. J. IPIDGES. President of Georgia Colq-ed Industrial and Orphans' Home. ] RESOLUTIONS ARE ACOPTED BY FRATERNITY BROTHERS. Whereas, The Almlghtj Father ha*. In H!« wisdom, called horn our beloved and esteemed brother, J in Wesley Akin; therefore, be It Resolved, That we, the members of Epsilon chapter, Kappa A iha frater nity, recognise In Judge Al n a worthy exponent of the high ideal of our or der: a man who, whether i a student In the halls of Emory, c lawyer in the practice of his profesa n, a Judge upon the bench, a legisU or at the rapltol, or a rltlr.cn In the »scharge of hls duties, ever llluntratcd, by an ex emplary life, the greatns i ot true worth. That we extend to hla d ?oted wife and family our heart-felt sympathy and love In this the time o( ur mutual grief, for their loss Is Indeq ours, and their sorrow* is Indeed our a rrow. BONNKLL H. Sg.VE, # LIVINGSTON MW, J. W. ROBERTS. Committee. "If I had my way I would Im» In ir »how thnt spent the entire winter playing In At- Uinta nnd the South," snlii Jack \V. Clinton, a member of the Yorke & Adams' "Playing Gm Ponies company, now nt the lifj.m l'.:uh year I look forward to th,. time when I come to Atlnutn. and It makes my Idood run cold to think of what will so>u be coining to me. After a 9*hurt stay In Georgia we are going to Norfolk, and then It will not be long before we hit Toronto and other cities In that part of the coun try. Iai*t winter we found It 27 degrees below aero up there, and we will get gome- | JhJug like that this year. There |* no place like Atlanta and Georgia. Mr. Cliutnn hiu * several years, nnd either ZSSSB orTr reimt.lL. .r«5 ffil'Trlp ec^SS! HI*™’. onmml..|on7« ar. _ po.Vtbli tor of the Kre.teat Inoith r.mluoeri In the tan.l, be tni In n itlM.troug wrrok. un.J heliiej' nulrlri will bo treated a, ahZnlntelv ennn/tl!,Vi?i a.!.? „,1 Bn, there .re prolJ.lr not qn.t, » m„nr pi.ll the Injnnol front the deVU “*4 JU,Inn* ne-rtn*' AN WOU t%i CEivl ENt! 'iHHui^eomlBg South for I wonted fnr Georgia to represent the strongest Southsr during that time he hns Non “P* rlic, ^ a Ung rates only. No board, sto ‘her «f friends. During ]>the. schemes. Business conducted on regular life Insurance lines