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/ THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25. 1907. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NEWS) JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. P. L. SEELY, President. T. B. GOODWIN, Gen’l Mgr. Published Every Afternoon. (Except Sunday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 25 West Alabama 8t., Atlanta, Ga. Subscription Rates* Six Months 2.60 Three Months '*2 One Month « By Carrier, Per Week W Chicago Offlre .... Tribune BuHdlng. New York Office .... Brunawlck Bldg. If yon have any trouble getting THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS, telephone the circulation department and have It promptly remedied. Telephones: Bell <927 main; Atlnntn 4401. Subscribers desiring THE GEOR GIAN AND NEWS discontinued must notify tlds office on the Oat* of expira tion; otherwise. It will be continued at the regular subscription rates until notice to stop Is received. IS ordering a change of sddress, please give the old ns well as the new It Is deslrnh|c that nil communica tions Intended for publication In THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS be limited to )fli word* In length. It Is Imperative that they l»e fdgued. ns an evidence of good faith. Rejected manuscripts will not lie returned nnless stumps are sent for the purpoac. THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS prints no uncjenti or objectionable advertis ing. Neither docs It print whisky or soy liquor ads. 7>frt PI.ATFOR M: TIIE GEORG I AN AND NEWS stands for Atlanta n own ing Its own gns and electric light plants, ns It now owns Its water works. Other cities do this and get gns ns low ns GO cents, with s profit to the city. This should be done at once. Til)-: GEORGIAN AND NEWS hetieroM that If street railways can be operated successfully by European cities, ns they are. there Is no good reason why they can not be so oper ated here. But we do not believe this can be done now, and It may be some years before we are. ready for so big Notice. Mr. Grave* will continue to occupy the editorial chair of The Georgian until Saturday evening, November 9th. On that day, which la bla birthday, the connection will cease and hts vale dictory will appear. i And now a nihilist Is after Taft, ilow premature. . Z The tale of the three bears Is quite interesting, but we still want to know who ktllad them. Tho Southern shy smiled Us bright est on Bryan. Let us hope It will not weep over Chanter. In Atlanta Chanler Is the man of the hour—(Friday from 11 to 12. at the fair grounds.) The trackless trolley I* predicted for the near future. The way of the pedestrian is hard. If modesty Is a disease, as a noted German doctor advocates, It Is clearly not In the epidemic class. 'The London press Is about becomo satisfied that the Pnclflc trip of the United States fleet really Is a pacific trip. "Divorce Is a woman’s greatest blessing," says Lillian Russell; not ex cepting that which makes divorce pos sible. At tny rate, the balloon racers are not so hard on the public as the auto- inoblllat*. If anybody's killed, It will ho themselves. Bernhardt expresses the hope that she may die on the stage. She should not And It hard to do. after all the practice she has had. In the write-up of a recent fashion able wedding In New York It was noted that "the presents were as nu merous as the guests.” No tree passes there. A fashion note declares that a dark brown Is suitable for early morning wear In rngn's clothes. Just so; and how about blue for our working hours, And a bright red when we go out In the evenings to paint the town! A Chicago man was sued by hla wife who claimed that he had not sent 'her any money during a three months' absmico In New York. He declares that he has always been kind to her. In hla defense. But, woman like, she waif not satisfied with unre mitting kindness. Mrs. Ida Lewis Wilson, a light house keeper oft Newport, R. 1., has been singled by the Society of the American Cross of Honor as the brav est woman In the United States. But there are many more brave women In this country, proving their heroism by their light house-keeping. Nevertheless it Is growing more and more evident that our great Georgian vjia light on his return from Europe when be said that, with the people turned loose to vote, Theodore Roose velt would poll more rotes North and South than any man In the country, with Bryan next In popular favor. Tarn the people loose to vote and Roosevelt would carry Georgia today by twenty thousand majority! Find a way to make the experiment and we will #ager our limit on the result. THE PRESIDENT’S BRAVE, CLEAR SPEECH. When one Is at a loss to understand the almost phenomenal popu larity which the president enjoys without regard to /actional lines In this republic, he will And an explanation In Jnst such a speech Is was made at Nashville on Tuesday. It Is the bold, straight stroke of the fearless publicist who knows he Is right and la not to be staggered by condition* or by Conspiracies. The failure of the Knickerbocker Trust Company was so colossal In Its scope that It was calculated to stagger the country. Followlbg fast upon the walls of pessimism from the hard-bit camps and the beleaguered trusts. It might have been easily constructed Into a panic to depress the prosperity of the country and to saddle the blame upon the brave presi dent who has been fighting the battles of the people. Even as It was the voices were many that rang from the camps of • the spoilers declaring that the Knickerbocker calamity and others that had come before and others that might follow after It had been due to the agitations of the president of the United States. Any weakness, any Irresolution on the part of the great leader of the reform forces of the time would have given currency to this attack and would have whelmed the reform movement with the discredit of a financial panic and calamity. Bqt straight and clear as a bugle note on the field of battle rings the trumpet tone of the president declaring that If these things do happen, they happen from the rottenness, from within and that he without regard to slanderous Implications shall preserve unswervingly the policy of bringing honest government and Just relations to the people In bis time. It la a slander born of the twin parents of Malice and of Fear to say that the president has played the demagogue or has depressed values by hts opposition to vested properties. There .was never a bolder slander concocted In the brain of frightened malice. In every single speech that the president has uttered from the first militant campaign against the merger of the Northern Pacific railroad, down to the last speech made on Tuesday at Nashville', he has never ceased to hold the balance fair and level between property and the people. He has never failed to say that he would fight as strongly In the defense 4 of property honestly acquired and honestly used as he would fight In defense of the poor man who was oppressed by the selfishness and greed of the corporate rich. His whole brave executive life has been one balanced effort to preserve an even jus tice between these Interests of the country. He has Indeed simply striven to "punish successful dishonesty." He is Indeed “responsible for turning' on the light, but he Is not responsible,for what the light has shown," and the whole republic, with one accord, will rise up and applaud his state ment that he. would permit neither the demagogue upon the one side nor the reactionary upon the other, to drive him from the course of policy which ho regards «b vital for'the well-being of this republic. Tho president has spoken with timely force and conspicuous clear ness at just exactly the right time. He has quieted the panic. He has rebuked the reactionaries eager to take advantage of panic for the dis couragement of reform. He ha* rung a bugle note- to Indicate to the world that the fluctuations and follies of Wall street lack a great deal of being the financial life of the republic. And he has stiffened the backbone of every honest man In the republic who wants to see cleaner politics and better government and more upright relations In the trade between the corporations and the people. We thank the president for his brave and timely utterances, and we take courage from It to go forward In our. own battle* here. It Is a lesson which we may well t^ke to ourselves In our Georgia state affairs. We can flot afford to allow the enemleB of reform, either In tho shape of open opposition or of secret enemies, to discredit or to thwart the movement which has been set on foot by the famous primaries of 1906. > Nor can we afford to be driven In hasto any more than we can In fear. We applaud the.deliberation of the railway commission which Is mov ing slowly and Investigating fully In order that they may decide wisely. We protest the baste and criticism which is being all too boldly employed to rush the administration to Intemperate or untimely action. And, In the spirit of the president whose popular prestige is now beyond doubt or cavil, wo may call upon every cltlxen of Georgia who voted for reform to stand by the resolved and yet conservative forces that are patiently arid definitely and heroically carrying these reforms to execution. There Is not enough partisanship loft In this country to prevent the people of all parties from a free and just applause of the recent speeches and actions of tho president of the United States. He Is proving himself every Inch a patriot as he has always been every Inch a man, and the people of Georgia, who are the boat people In the world, are not the least among those who reoognlte and applaud both the patriot and the man. We lift our hats to tho able, undaunted and Incorruptible president of the United States. TWO ANTITHETICAL PRESIDENTS. While Theodore Rposcvelt strides his world like a Colossus, vital, puissant, honored, deferred to, almost omnipotent In politics, and a part of everything t:i the republic, President Fallleres of our sister republic of France lives tu comparative retirement and obscurity on tho outskirts of Paris, and Is apparently without force and evidently without Influence. The ghastly crime of 8olellland, who murdered a child In Paris under the most revolting circumstances, thrilled nil Franco with horror. He was condemned to the gulllotlno by n Jury, but In accordance with pre vailing French sentiment, as well as with the precedent of years, tho pres ident remitted his sentence and Imprisoned him for life. This gives M. Rochefort an occasion In bis Intranslgeant (Paris) to declare that the president gave the reprieve to Indicate his own exist ence and authority. The president of France at present Is a nonentity. He doe* not sign any treaties. Nobody consults him, and he has become positively useless. Hear Rochefort; "Attention has suddenly been called to the comical person- • ality of Mr. Armand Fallleres. • "No ono ever thinks about the president In his retreat at RaniboullleL Tho Moroccan affair goes on, with Its alternate skirmishes and truces. Kings, emperors and ambassadors make agreements nnd exchange visits. The dirigible balloons execute evolutions In the upper air; tho delegates at Tho Hague debate; the apaches'ln Paris do their deeds of darkness. Mr. Fallleres, oblivious to all these events, takes his accustomed dally walk, and IiIb dally nap at noon. "No one speaks of Kim; all but hfs name Is forgotten. Peo ple, probably, sometimes ask whether a president of tho republic existed. Bets are made at the seaside as to the name of Mr. Lou- bet'a successor. "At last Solellland came, and Mr. Fallleres found an un- equaled opportunity of gaining the llmollgnt. Llko a Chinese shadow his profile was suddenly projected upon the white screen. "The deed was done; the spell of silence was broken. Peo ple began to talk about him. ... "Yes, Mr. Fallleres has proved to us, In an Indescribably mas terly manner, how flagrantly useless Is his function as presi dent. "Apart from pardoning Solellland, tinder circumstances of nameless scandal, what has he done? Nothing. Formerly, the president of the republic signed trestles. Under Mr. Fallleres everything Is ohanged. . . . The president of the republic has really become a fifth wheel In the government of Franco. "A gust of wind will entry him away, him and bis office, for he can not exiiect to have a Solellland ready all the time to save him." And yet this man lives with the object lesson dally before him of a president who has made his democratic chair‘ more powerful than a throne. Think of any man talking of Roosevelt as Rochefort does of Fal lleres. •- And wbat a pitiful personality the president of France must be! would not wish It If It did not do good and help to Increase their trade and enlarge their revenues and please the people. And so as we are all Interested In the state and In Atlanta and In our selves, let us realize the reciprocal obligation that Is upon us and let us all—the fathers of families and the mothera of families—with our chil dren and their dependents, strike a bee lino this evening for tho Geor gia State Fair, making It a Joint tribute to the glory of an October day and to the fullness of the October exhibit of Georgia’s riches spread out before the people. Growth and Progress of the New South The Georgian here records each day soiui economic fact In reference to the onward progress of the South. BY J08EPH B. LIVELY The Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index says In Its Issue for this week: “There could be no more reliable barometer of business conditions In Georgia and Alabama than the continued demand for and steadily Increasing prices of lands of all kinds. The value of the great tracts of timber lands In the two states S tows month by month. In many sections the prices of farm lands have more Juan oqhled In n few years, suburonn lands are in greater nnd greater demand as cities anti towns expand, nnd mineral lands hpld valuable deposits that are al ways subject to check. During the past week manufacturers of g Tennessee city purchased a tract of timber bind In northern Alabama, nnd representatives of a St. Lout* syndicate prospected for the purpose of making a similar purchase, subur ban building lots are to be placed on-the market In rearson, Ga.: Carrollton, Ga.; Jnsper, Ala.; Blakely, Ga., and Bessemer, Ala. In a south Georgia county ft pur chaser gave 66.600 for a 480-acre tract of farm land for which he declined to give 6200 a few years ago. the great development of that section being the explana tion. In another south Georgia county In which Sumatra tobacco Is being grown with great success, a yearly profit of fl,0J0 per acre, not being so very unusual, the values of lauds have Increased to enormous sums. “Industrial operations definitely projected Include Important enterprises. A com pany is being organized to build a railroad betwoqp Pelham, Ga., and Havana. Fla., through a rich timber and agricultural section. Of a proposed «wD*l of 6250,000, 6176,000 has been subscribed at Albany, - Ga., for building a lO.OOO-spIndle yarn mill, nnd business men of Hnnola, Ga., biiTe subscribed $65,000 for building a cottou mill at that place. At Busier, Ala., a company has been Incorporated to build a street railway and light and power plant. At Huntsville, Ala., a 61o0,- 000 company will build a Jute bagging factory. Furnaces will be enlarged at Gadsden. A‘ “* " * * ‘ Huntsville, with loss c. Birmingham, , .. has been formed st Brunswick, On. “Reports of construction planned show steady activity, the number of substan tial residences being n feature. Site has been secured nnd nil arrangements per fected to hnitd a 6150,000 hotel at Athens, Ga. A 650,000 company will erect building a for use by department store st Sylvanln. Ga. Improvements and enlargements of buildings of an Alabama college, to cost 6100,000, are planfled. Sparta, Ga., Is to have a 616,000 church. Mobile. Ala., proposes to pave portions of six streets nnd paring plans have been projected at Bessemer, Ala., and Dublin, Ga. Theater building at Huntsville. Ala., will be remodeled to Include offices. Hotel st Dub lin, Ga., will be enlarged, probably by the erection of a four-story addition." I N upbuilding a city there is no more important factor than conservative, yet progressive, banking—conservative in order that financial conditions may always be sound; progressive in order that no deserving business enetrprise, capable of contributing to the growth and prosperity of the city, may Lack proper financial aid. This bank, which is conducted along these lines, is pleased to place at the disposal of its customers the facilities gained during twenty-seven years ofcontinuous service and growth. MADDOX-RUCKER BANKING CO. REAL MEANING OF THANKSGIVING leeeeeeeeeeeeeee'i By WILLIAM J. BRYAN. Thanksgiving Is of little value If our expressions of gratitude have no effect upon our own conduct. Appreciation ot blessings Is shown by acts rather than by words. If we regard citizenship as a priceless Inheritance, we should resolve to transmit It, not only unimpaired, but Improved.Ip the next generation; if Our educational system has-been a,boon.to us, It should be extended and amplified for the benefit of posterity; If the re sources of our country have a value be yond computation. It behooves us to see to It that these resources are not squan dered, and that the bounties which the Creator Intended tor all shall not be monopolized by the cunning, the craft and the avarice of a few: If our.govern ment gives to life, liberty and prosper ity greater protection than any other government grants, we can not excuse ourselves If we fail to preserve It, In all Its purity, for our children and our children's children; If,In our religion we find a consolation, a life plan and a moral uplift, we can not but earnestly desire—and embody the desire tn doeds —that thede shall be shared by those about us and by those also who, though separated from us by seas, are bound to us by that primal tie that links each human being to every other.—From "Why We Ought to Be Thankful," by William Jennings Bryan, In‘The Circle for November. ATLANTA DAY AT PIEDMONT PARK. When Atlanta authorities name a day for Atlanta to Illustrate her loyalty to a state Institution which Is no less a local Institution by Its lo cation, then every loyal citizen-of Atlanta should rally to Atlanta Day at the State Fair. This notice will reach the multitude too late to urge them to spend the haif-uay within the gates of this splendid exhibition, but tn this beau tiful October weather while the air Is balmy and the moonlight lend* Its glory to every lake and leaf, there Is no reason why Atlanta, with her ac customed loyalty, mould not lay aside Its duties, real or Imaginary, and go out In the early afternoon to stay until bedtime amid the attractions and pleasures of this admirable state exhibit. It Is worth something—much—to Atlanta to have the State Fair As sociation hold its exposition within our gates. Our merchants and our business men are Interested every year In securing Its location here.'They A GODSPEED AND A GREETING THE GOING OF GRAVES, (From The Augusta Herald.) The announcement that John Temple Graves would leave The Georgian to go with The New York American has created quite a sensation In Geor gia—not only amongst us editor folk, but even also throughout the reading, newspaper public of the state. A few years ago It was the Hon. Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, that Hearst wanted to edit hla papers—since then there have been rumors that Mr. Graves has been ofttlmes approached by Mr. Hearst, and now comes the news that Mr.-Graves will leave The Geor gian and cast In his lot with The New, York American, Mr. Hearst’s most serious paper, as Mr. Graves puts It. It certainly la no laughing matter for Georgia Journalism at the present Juncture to give up Graves. Without A thought or purpose of Invidious comparison. It Is a safe saying to utter, there's no one thqj occupies, or has, or probably ever will occupy, Just the position that John Temple Graves has made for himself and The Georgian In the newspaper and political world of the state. One might almost say that he has created the situation nnd now that one's Interest and delight Is at the keenest, we are to abso lutely lose him. / The mights' Influence of Hearst Is surely being felt In Georgia. The de parture of Graves may mean the end or the beginning. It may mean the Georglanlzlng as well as galvanizing of all the rest of the Hearst papers. In that case It will be a blow to the state, worse than the prohibition shock and surprise. Georgia without Journalists, and such Indeed may be the fate of the state, as all the rest of us. one by one, follow the footsteps of Graves and Join the chain of Mr. Hearst’s papers, from one end of the con tinent to the other. Like John Temple, we may pretend not to hear the call for a while, but when It comes again and high nnd clear, we. too, may feel tt our duty to gird our loins, take up our staff, put on our coat nnd follow. Aside from the posltlvo political and personal loss tn the press nnd to the state that comes with the announcement of Mr. Graves' call to the Hearst service, there comes the warning premonition to the faithful of the Georgia press, that one day Mr. Heat'st may need us. too, and we can already Imagine the struggle such a situation will make In every sanctum of the 'state. T<r go to New York and dine on lobsters or remain at home nnd I finish picking tlje cotton crop! However much New York may need us at the present moment, let us not forget that as yet the potatoes are not dug, the pea* aye not picked, the 'possums and the persimmons are still ungath ered ana the harvest fields still fleecy with what Is to clothe and warm us and the world. The working force of the state, and there are too few labor, ers, Is seriously weakened by the going of Graves. We know that Georgia will miss this genial gentleman In more ways than one, nnd upon none will the loss fall sharper than upon hts brethren of the press. It will doubtless be his comfort, ns It Is generously his due, to carry with him In his new field of work the genuine cordial regard and the warm personal well wishes of hit thousands of friends and admirers throughout Georgia and the South, A WELCOME TO EDITOR 8EELY, OF THE GEORGIAN. The editor of The Herald has Just penned 'a Farewell to the Going of the Gallant Graves, from the Ranks of Georgia Journalists. Colonel Graves has been called higher and now New York and not Atlanta nor the southorn platform nor banquet board can claim him against the world for all their own. The passing of Graves leads one naturally to thoughts of his successor and this we already see In the smiling face, the strong hand clasp and love for the common people, so strikingly exemplified In the erstwhile publisher and now the editor of the Georgian, Colonel F. L. Seely. Graves A Seely—Seely A Graves—have made a strong combination—a unique partnershlp-Tln the newspaper world of the state. The Georgian today Is what they have mails It—each In his separate sphere. Seely ns an editor, we are sure, will make equally as good and strong and capable, as Seely as a publisher. Ccrtplnly there Is no doubt but that every paper In Georgia would benefit by having just such another Seely connected with It, as editor or publisher, or as editor and publisher, as now the an nouncement will read. While our heart Is sore at the passing of Graves, we rejoice that tho press of the state has Seely left with us, and we are doubly glad that he Is going to be the editor of the Georgian. It means that the Geor gian Is going to continue on the path marked out for It; It means that mofe work and greater usefulness Is going to be gladly undertaken by Editor Seely In the Journalistic vineyard of the state. If you haven’t met Seely of the Georgian as yet you can have an ex perience and sensation coming to you. It has always been worth a trip to Atlanta to see him nnd talk to him, when he was only a plain pub lisher of a mighty good newspaper. The joy and delight and charm of finding him s fullfiedged editor, with scissors and paste and brush and blue pencils tn play with—well, tt will be compensation for staying In Atlanta over night and getting u chance to read the Georgian the day It's printed. Seriously, The Herald predicts that Seely Is going to make a great editor for the Georgian. At any rate, we are confident that he Is going to give the best that's In him to the Job. which Is considerable, and with his steadfast belief that every man ought to earn his wages, we are happy In the conviction that the Georgian will be no less brilliant, helpful, stenflfast and patriotic In the future than It has been In the past. The Herald extends It* congratulations, and Its cordial wishes for peace, prosperity and success to Editor Seely of the Georgian. ' FALL TIME IN GEORGIA. Fall time In Ogorgla— State fair now Is on— Aunt Jane has arrove. Along with Uncle John. An’ Cousin Jeem* Is here— Said he'd be sure to cum To hear the music of the flfe An' rattlin' kettle drum. Sum air stoppln' with Uncle Jim, Sum with Aunt Marie, While Aunt Ann an' the ktds Air stayin' ’long with me. Fall time In Georgia— Kin cornin' every day. Them that’s not yet arrtv' Air now upon the way. Some atr steepin' on the bed An' some air on the flo'. While we ain't had no sleep In 'bout a week or mo’. We've borrowed klver from Lu Jones An'.some from Mm. Brown. In fact, we've borrowed from the folk* Two block or mo' around. Fall time In Georgia— The frost la on tne way— So air our country kin Who's a-comln' fer a stay. There's.Uncle Jim, Aunt Caroline, Bllas. Paul an' Lou— Jonathan an* Jeremiah, Luke an* Peter, too; An' ylt they Jest keep cumin' From most everywhere 7 They cum to see Atlanta An' the Georgia State Fair. W. M. C. FACT8. To the Editor of The Georgian: The National Magazine, under a title of "Who Pays Uncle Sam's Expenses?" says: "The salary of the president, vice president and entire cabinet for one year Is collected from the beer drinkers In one day. "By midnight. January 1, the smokers of cigars and cigarettes have provided for the salary of the ensuing year. "The consumers of chewing and smoking tobacco pay the salaries of our splendid navy. "The snuff consumers maintain th* public health and marine service. "The tax on oleomargarine and ren ovated butter pays the National Sol diers' Homes. "Card players supnort West Point Military Academy. “The tax on these articles paid 53 1-2 per cent of the Spanlsh-AmSrlcan war. "Now arises the question: will the teachers of prohibition assume the tax If the beer revenue fails to come tn?” CITIZEN. , Covering a long-abandoned well In Bosworth street, Boston, was an old gravestone which workmen unearthed whll* excavating for a water pipe. It bears the following Inscription: "Wil liam Trow, son of William ami Eliza beth Trow. Dec'd Aug. 17th, 1724. Aged 1 Year and 4 Mo." The stone has a border ot acanthus leaves, and at the top the traditional cherub's head flanked by wings, all neatly carved. The tout capital Invested In British coal mine* Is fully 1900,000,00*. Th* annual wages amount to 2300,000,000. A TRIP TO MARS By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. Oh. by and by. we shall hear the cry: "This Is the way to Mars: , Come take a trip on the morning ship.,. It sails by the Isle ot Stars. “A glorious view of planets new We promise by night and day; Past dying suns our good ship runs, And we pause at the Milky Way.” / I am almost sure we will take that tour . Together, my. dear, my dear: For ever have we, by land nnd sea. Gone Journeying far and near. ' Out over the deeps, up mountain steeps, We have trtiveled mile on mile: And to sail away to the Martlnn Bay— Oh, that were a trip worth while! Our ship will race thro' sen* of *pnce Up Into the Realms of Light. Till the whirling ball of the Earth grows small. And Is utterly lost to sight. Thro* the nebulous spawn, where planets are born. We will pass with snlls well furled, And with eager eyes we will scan the skies, For the sight of a new-made world. From the derelict barque of a sun gone dark, Adrift In our fair ship's path, A beacon star shall guide us afar And afar from the Comet’s wrath. . Oh. many a start of pulse and heart We have felt nt the sight of land; But what would we do If the dream came true ''And wo sighted the Martian strand? So, If some day you come and say. "They are sailing to Mars, I hear," I want you to know I am ready to go— All ready, my dear, my denj^ PEOPLE AND THINGS GOSSIP FROM THE HOTELS AND THE STREET CORNERS Former Governor W. D. Bloxham, of Tallahassee. Florida, Is spending sev eral weeks here, a guest at 575 Peach tree street, and Is one of Atlanta’s most distinguished visitors. Mr. Bloxham has held nearly every Important position of trust and honor In the state of Florida, from governor down, and tn 1901, after a public life of 41 years, he gave up the strenuous game of politics for quieter walks of life, feeling that he hud had all that was good for any man. * Mr. Bloxham was governor twice, from 1881 to 1885, and from 1897 to 1901. He was at different times mem ber of the legislature, lieutenant-gov ernor, secretary of state, surveyor gen eral, comptroller general, and governor. nnouncemwt Is made of the lllr of Jack Kerstaw at his home, 183 East Hunter street. Jack Kershaw Is one ot Atlanta’s pioneers. He lived here before the war, fought valiantly through that struggle and returned again to make Atlanta his home. Now that he Is an Invalid at hts home, he Is, exceedingly anxious to talk over old times with some of his comrades and companions of long ago. Dr. Ed. L. Griffin, of 454 Woodward avenue. Is seriously III at his home, of typhoid fever. Dr. Griffin Is medical examiner for the U. S. recruiting of fices In Atlanta. ARMY-NAVY ORDERS AND MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS. GENIU8ES THE CHILDREN OF MIDDLE-AGED PARENTS. (From The Literary Digest.) That coiuporatlvcly few men ami women of genius wore the eldest children of their parent* Is ft fact announced l»y Dr. leonine O. Itablnpvltch, of New York, lu a paper on 'The' Helicals of Genius, “ read before the recent International congress <>u psychiatry, * ‘ - ---- 1 Record; at Amsterdam. Hays the Medical “In a study of 74 nit and women—poets. -w Army Orders. Washington, Oct. ■ 23.—Following change* In Htstlon nnd duties of officers coast artil lery corps: Colonel John D. C. Hoskins, from Fort Dupoiit to Fort Bara in'/in, Fla., command post nml nrtlllery district of I’ensncoln: LletitennnM* ‘ " “ Hnrnncn nnd artillery ......... .. John C. W. Brooks, from Fort Orelile to Fort Admits: Major Eugene T. Wilson. 10 Fort McKinley; Major Edmond M. Blake, from Fort Adnins to Fort Groble, command Major Warren I*. Newcomb, from duty a* lifting inspector-general t* Fort De Koto, command post nnd artillery district of Tnmpa; Major Millard F. Ilnruion. from ordnance hoard, detailed acting Inspector- general; Major George F. Barney, detailed member ordnance hoard. Following changes In stations and duties of paymasters; . Captain Thomas II. R. McIntyre, from de portment of the gulf, upon arrival at At lanta of Mnjor Francis L. Pnyson. to this city, office of pout paymaster; Mnjor Her bert M. Lord, from Boaton Noveinlier 1 to Omaha. ns chief paymaster of department of the Missouri; Major George T. Holloway, from chief paymaster, department of the Missouri, to Governor's Island; Major Man ly B. Curry, from department of the East November 5, to Atlanta; Major James W. Dawes, about November 10 to Han Antonio for temporary duty during absence of Can* tain Howard C. rarrj Captain Ernest A. Grcetioiigh, cnaat nrtlllery corps, is detailed for service nnd to fill n vacancy In the pay department November 28. vice Captain Mar lins G. Hplnks, paymaster, who is relieved om detail; Captain Greenough will report to the commanding general, department of pnlltirliini. ■lx were the eldest children; among 17 painters but one was the first-born «>f his mother (be was a natural child); muon* J5 musicians there were only two tlntt-hom. Not only were these men of genius not the first-born, in a very large number of coses they were the youngest or next to the youngest of the family. Thus Coleridge was the last of thirteen children; James Feut- more Cooper was the eleventh of twelve children; Washington Irving was the last of eleven; BaJxac, the last of three; George Kllot, the Inst of four; Napoleon was tue eighth, nnd pmlmhly the Inst; Dnnlel Web ster, the last of seven; Benjamin Franklin was the last of seventeen, and the last-born of the last-torn for several generations; Rembrandt was the Inst of six children; Itnbeus. the Inst of seven; Hlr Edwin Laud- seer, the fifth of oeven children; Joshua Reynolds was the sorenth child of his par ents; Carl Marla Weber, the last of oeven; Mozart, the last of seven; Schumann, the Inst of five: Hchubert, the thirteenth of fourteen. The parents, therefore, of great men.were, for the most part, of a ripe nge “t the time at the concept ten of the latter; .hat Is to sny, the cellular potentiality of the parents was then at Its maximum from the mental na well as the physical point of view. Herein Ilea hope for Osier's super annuates who have passed the dead-line of forty years. If you can do nothing more for the world with bands or brains, they can nt least at rive to people the earth with men of genius, who will carry on nnd per fect the work which they themselves, at the acme of their usefulness, hare been condemned by the Oxford professor to lay California, for assignment In Sun Francisco; Major Jonas A. Emory, Twenty-seventh In fantry, upon his own application, after more than thirty years' service, Is retired from active service., Hpcond Lieutenant Frank N. McEnhlll. second cavalry, having been found Incapac itated for active service on account of dis ability Incident thereto, retirement Is an nounced. First Lieutenant Charles H. Blakeley, Third field artillery, to Fort Meyer for temporary duty. Naval Orders. Captain II. Winslow, detached In com ma ml Kenrsarge, November 1, to home arid wait orders; Commander II. 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