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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
KCfVEMUlSU S, ITTT.
THE ATLANTA OEORfilAN
(AND NEWS)
JOHN TEMPLE <5RAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY. President.
T. B. GOODWIN, Gen’l Mgr.
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OCR PLATFORM: THE GEORGIAN
AND NEWS stands for Atlanta's own
ing Its own gas ami electric light
plants. n« It now nwne Its water
works. Other cities do this anil get
gas an low aa fiO cent!, with a profit
ta the City, This should b» done at
once. THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS
believes that If street rallwnya can be
operated successfully by European
cities, as they are, there Is no good
reason why they ran not he so oper
ated here. Rot we do not believe this
ran ho done now, and It may bo oome
yeara tiefore we are ready for so big
an undertaking. StHI Atlanta should
aet Its face In tbnt direction NOW.
Hitchcock has como home, but Mias
Maloney la still out of town.
Eddie Foy Is going to play Hamlet,
lie will probably be as funny as ever.
There will be plenty of money again
for Uncle Sam when his ship comes
In.
Chancellor Day has written a book.
From a stormy Day he has been trails
1 formed Into a dull Day.
Salt Lake City elections seem to
' have gone anti-Mormon, even 11 there
Is no wmnnn suffrage vote there.
It Is announced that a second Peter
Pan company la going on the road.
That's a mistake; there's only one.
If Mr. Carnegie had been sincere in
his desire to die poor he wouldn't
have stayed away from Wall streot
last week.
Slr-e John D. has begun to pose aa
a public benefactor, iwrliups there will
be a let-up ou the |Mxir Standard Oil
Company.
The Chicago woman who wants
$5,000 for a broken jaw may get It If
her husband la able to pay what It's
worth to him.
The Dutch artist who aays all
Americans are beginning to look alike
must be looking through the eyes of
Charles Dana Gibson.
A New York woman sought the aid
ot the police In getting rid of a pest
of fleas In her apartment. She re
quired the services of a fly cop.
- Governor liuclitel, in a Chicago lec
ture, boasts that oven the Colorado
bears know the president. Yes, but
they’re probably against him.
In a few weeks there will lie an
other flight of gas bags toward Wash
ington, remarks an exchange. Full of
hot sir and with little ballast aboard,
too.
It Is understood that In the new
coins of St. Gandlns' design the words
"In God We Trust" will be Omitted.
It Is understood further that all men
tion as to whom we now trust will be
omitted.
Why Ha Missed ths Race.
The late Colonel Will S. Hays bad
an ample etore of humor within him.
Some two years ngu I was walking
down the street with him and the con
versation turned to horse rating. "The
horse racing of today don't compare
with the old days,” sahl t'olonel Hays.
"I remember one grout race here be
tween Red Cloud nnd War Ragle. I
was a boy, and with several others had
gotten a rood knot-hole In the fence,
and I was glued tn that hole. The
hones were trying to get started and
everything was excitement. I pressed
closer to my knot-hole, when suddenlv
I felt a terrible kick from behind, an.l
1 went up that fence so fast that It
peeled the skin off my nose, and 1
heard a familiar voice Bay, 'Darn you.
give me that knot-hole!’ 1 looked and
saw that It was my father who hail
my knot-hole—I didn’t wait to see the
race."—Our Country.
Why the Moon Looks Yellow.
It Is the atmosphere that makes the
iky blue and the moon yellow. If we
;ould ascend to an elevation of fifty
tnliea above the earth's surface, we
ihould see that the moon la a brilliant
white, while the sky le black with the
itats shining as brightly In the day
time aa at nigltt, though some would be
. green, others red, still others blue or
■yolets—Uur Country.
REMOVING THE TARIFF FROM POLITICS.
Lieutenant Governor C’hanler of New York made a strong plea at our
Georgia State Fair for taking the tariff out of politics. And It was well
nnd heartily received by the great Georgia audience that heard him.'
The idea Is growing apace.
The chief of the Bureau of Manufactures, of the Department of
Commerce and Labor, Major John M. Carson, in discussing the tariff
question with a representative of American Industries, calls attention to
the various corpB of tariff experts maintained by Germany, Great Brit
ain and France which really have the functions of a tariff commission.
"In either the foreign offices or in one of their departments, usually
called a 'Bureau of Intelligence,”’ says Major Carson, "there Is engaged,
hard at work during every month of the year, a. corps of experts upon
tariffs. These are men engaged because of their specialized knowledge
of particular Industries, as well as because of their acquaintance with
the customs duties of other countries, ft Is their business to make
themselves acquainted with the effect upon export aud import trade of
every change In customs duties and all proposed changes, tn their own
parliaments or In others. For example, you may wonder why Great
Britain, a free trade country, should employ a whole staff of experts on
tariff. The reason Is while the British government clings to the policy
of free trade. It has every reason in the greater part of all the world to
know precisely what duties and customs regulations arc to be Imposed
In various countries upon its exports. Upon the other hand. France,
Germany and Belgium have every reason to know precisely how any
proposed change In their customs duties may affect Imports and what ef
fect they may have upon exports.
"This work can not bo done by any temporary commission nor can
It bo done by any committee of any legislative body that ever existed.
It Is a task that must he accomplished by men trained In the details ot
the various Industries In which each country Is especially Interested, In
which most of Its capital Is invested, In which most of its labor Is em
ployed, and In which most of Its revenue, It It tie a tariff-levying country,
Is most interested.
“It seems to me a very reasonable proposition that the government
of the United States, whose export trade has Increased so enormously
within the last decade, and which contains possibilities of - production
far exceeding the prospects of domestic consumption, and, therefore, de
manding foreign markets, should create such a bureau of experts,
thoroughly qualified to advise committees of congress or the executive
as to the offeet of any proposed changes In customs schedules. It may
not be possible to calculate these exactly, oven with experts; at least
a scientific approximation can be made, which would have Us weight In
the consideration of any tariff legislation nnd which would certainly
have a strong beurlng upon. Bny decision by such a soml-judtclal board
of tariff commissioners, corresponding In some degree to the Interstate
commerce commission, as Is proposed by the National Association of
Manufacturers."
JAPAN HAS STUDIED OUR NAVY AND TALKS OF LASTING
PEACE.
And now conies from the Far East the statement that Japan wants
a lasting peace with America.
Ev6n so let It be.
America wishes peace with all natlous and entangling alliances
with none.
But let It not ho forgotten that the aspiration that has come for
peace between these two countries, America and the over-praised little
empire of Japan, comes from the sight of the big ships of the republic
and of the big guns that man their decks.
It is all very well to fling the charge of "jingoism" at thoBe who
speak of the possibilities of war. It is one ot the pet expressions of an
ultra-conservatism to protest any discussion of war with a foreign
country. And we arc quite sure that no people In America desire a war
with a foreign country now or at any other time. But every man who
knows and realizes that Japan has been arrogant and nagging In the ex
treme toward the United States so long as Its Pacific coasts were un
guarded by a great and puissant fleet, and any man who reads must real
ize that since the Amorlcan squadron has been headed for the Pacific
nets, and since tho might nnd the force of Its ships has been blazoned to
the world, there has been n complotc revolution In the attitude and In the
public expressions ot Japan.
The president of -the United States has net In all his great career
done a wiser thing than in throttling this spirit of aggression and this
talk of strife between America and Japan by tho cruise of tho Atlantic
squadron In tho Pacific seas. There was not a threat expressed or veiled,
but It wns'slmply a democratic and diplomatic demonstration of tho »a-
al majesty of this great republic, nnd Japan, which must never he
charged with anything less than discretion and good sense, has been In
telligent enough to appreciate tho meaning and the possibilities of such
a cruise.
Hobson, of Alabama, must be credited, too, In part with this vigor
ous policy which has hushed tho war notes In the East. Hobson has
been roundly rated as a jingo, but ho has told the truth from the condi
tions which, as an nccbhlpllshed sailor and naval officer, he saw and
understood, and tho truth which has como to him from a knowledge of
tho conditions about the suite department at Washington.
Hobson as nn agitator has done as much ns any other force to in
spire Roosevelt as an executive to the magnificent naval demonstration
which has sent to Its holes the war party In Japan, and which now In
duces the Japanese minister Hayashl to speak for hts country the aspira
tion toward a lasting peace. *
Jingoism has Its Uses as well as conservatism, that Is If Jingoism
consists of a timely and fearless agitation ot Impending danger, and the
jingoism of Hobson and of Roosevelt has been richly vindicated In the
tranquil note which has fallen upon tho foreign expressions and foreign
policies ot the empire ot Japan.
TOM JOHNSON ONE OF THEM.
Our busy friends among the psragraphers take so much delight In
twisting every favorable comment made by The Georgian upon public
men Into a nomination for the presidency, that It Is with almost timid
hesitation that we refer once more to the splendid victory of Tom John
son In Ohio.
Certainly no man In this changing era of public life has held his
grip upon public confidence more strongly than the stalwart Kentuckian,
who has made his home In tho chief city of Ohio.
Ilut there Is no doubt that Tuesday’s elections project Tom Johnson
in very largo and wholesome linen upon the Democratic horizon. Wo
do not bold It to lie likely (hat he will be the Democratic nominee for
president. Rut there can be no doubt that the prestige of a fourth very
remarkable success joined to the strong and masterful qualities which
he has always Illustrated, make him a very Interesting figure anti a
very proper subject for discussion and consideration among the i>ossl-
hlllties of the next national convention.
The big mayor of Cleveland would be a second "strong man in the
White House’’ beyond a doubt If he could get there. And there would
he no doubt or uncertainty as to his policies and no lack of courage and
definiteness In the execution of popular reforms. He has always had
convictions and the courage of them, and withal he bears himself with
such wholesome vigor, with such hreexy Individuality and with such
splendid good humor antld all the details of life that we can not fail to
see how his presidential qualities might pasa from the desirable Into
the ideal.
As the matter stauda, a gentleman who tlvca In Lincoln. Nebr.,
seems to hnve a strangle hold upon the next nomination of his party,
but in case he should voluntarily or Involuntarily relax this grip. It Is
jierfectly plain to see that there are a multitude ot good strong whole
some figures in the Democratic ranks and that Tom Johnson of Cleve
land is unquestionably one of them.
and make one sorrowful and at unrest until the}- have had their answer.
This Is tue mountain of discontent which confronts the editor of The
Georgfan In the closing hours of his connection with the desk which has
been his citadel and his refuge for these later years. There are no mere
words that can answer the kindliness, the greeting and the Inspiration
of these hundreds of letters which have piled high upon the editorial
desk. In breaking up a home that has been built through fifteen years
of accumulation and In settling oneself In a new home in which every
condition is absorbing, It Is utterly Impossible that these letters can be
answered in the time allotted by courtesy and Inspired by grateful ap
preciation.
Utterly unable to answer the rolling flood cf personal correspond
ence we rest upon the knowledge of our friends that we are grateful and
remember.
May we ask once more our friends to receive through these col
umns the expressions of heart-felt appreciation which must necessarily
he too long delayed In actual acknowledgment. ’Gratefully and cordial
ly we thank the writers and have laid aside these charming and helpful
messages for the comfort and solace of later and perhaps less active
years. Wo send hack to each and every one of them who have speeded
us on our way with so much of Inspiration, the sincere and unfeigned ac
knowledgments of a gratitude that will endure.
Growth and Progress of the New South
The Georgian here records each day
some economic fact in reference to
the ontvard progress of the South.
JOSEPH B. LIVELY
of that company'* properties. These lands comprise 1,000 acres on the Moathern
railway lu Cumberland county. Tennessee, nnd the mines now Imre « dully output
of 100 Ions of steam, domestic ni»«l cooking coni. Between $49,000 and 150,000 has
• so far been expended for development.
The I'loneer Cool Company hits hren organised at Hteveuson. Ala., with it capi
tal stock of $100,000 to develop atom 4.006 acres of coni hinds In l»ry Cove, a few
miles from Hteveuson. Tlf property Ik said toeontaln a vein of domestic and
steam coat which measures over four feet in thickness.
Dispatches front Temple. Texas, state flint 1. W. Culp, of that cltv. and other
Texas parties have purchased for $Wti.OO) a tract of 120.000 acres of coal and timber
land In Morgan and Itownn counties, Kentucky. The Intention of the purchasers
Is understood to he to arrange at once for the development of the property.
In riot to, X. C., Is prepnr-
ir Company of t _
„ . .... . i power efeetrle plant to he located
Hpjirtnnhnrir, S. C. This plant Is to have n capacity of 50,(KK) horse power, and
will he Dull t lu seetlous as needed, count ruction to begin next year. It will be
equipped with 10.000-horse power turbines, nnd will lie used to augment during low-
wnter periods the various else trie plants which the company Is building In North
and Hrnith Carolina. Probably $2,009,(VO w ill In* the cost of tills steam plant when
completed ns planned. Tim company's various water power electric plants have
been detailed previously by the Manufacturers* Record. They will eventually dis
tribute over 200,000 horse power to manufacturing Industries, especially cotton
mills. Two plants are now operating and furnish 49,009 horse power, two under
constructlea will furnish CO,009 horse jmwCr,
AMBITION.
UNANSWERED LETTERS.
Among the disturbing elements In the life of an absorbed and busy
man nothing strikes inward with deeper discontent and a keener men*
tal protest than a pile of unanswered letters.
Be they from business men touching upon business matters of mu
tual Interest, or if they como bearing inquiries upon matters in which
the writer rather than the receiver is Interested, and more than all. If
they come from friends bearing messages of good will and of godspeed
and of inspiration, they tower In appealing plica upon the editorial desk
By LANDON CARTER.
A MBITION. If accompanied by good
Judgment, In perhaps the mom valua
ble htltiinn Inheritance, but, like all
power*. It can, without proper con
trol, become proportionately daugcrou*. Am
bition . prompted by courageous nnd high
moral aspiration* I* n component part of no
many thing* that It may pcrhnp* wiser
to particularize. For Instance, no mnu, If
alotbtul, can be genuinely a gentleman, for
the fortune of good birth, although great,
I* equally n responsibility. Human nature,
at bent, I* too trull ami faulty not to need
cou slant Improvement. Breed tuny be
stronger than pasture, nnd still without
proper nourishment and cultivation nothing
can thrive, go also la It with refinement.
Men and women would be mere aujmals
but for ambition, the results of which give
them u corresponding inhere mentally, mor
ally, socially and physically in life, and by
the lack of proper ambition am they ren
dered equally insignificant. Ambition em
phasise* tho children's stundlir: In school
nnd designates for them the umit suitable
future vocations.
A very desirable form of knowledge Is a
Just appreciation of one’s abilities, but there
Is no greater hindrance to self-improvement
than nu exaggerated Idea of personal Im
portance. As greatly to lie toured, how
ever, Is the great lack of self-coutldeuce,
for It Is unquestionable that too great a
consciousness of one's frailties undermines
that active heroism which battles against
the wrong.
Youth Is not In Itself particularly hope
ful. Childish griefs seem more serious aud
more final, because there are no memories
of outlived sorrow to overcome disappoint
ments, to hMp and encourage future strug-
5 1 es. 8o by properly encouraging ehfl*
ren’s hopes and successes one cultivates
and stimulates ambitious for the future.
Ambition In one's dnlly duties Is ns need-
• ill ns worship: for God. after having given
us great possibilities, lielns us with our
minds, as well ns with our hearts nnd, soul*.
Surely excellence encourage* one about life
“ drltuul wealth of
,. „ .Jso creates great
pleasure In work, which Is lu Itself n higher
form of recompense than material conipen
J «p
bit after the water In cut off.
Tho truly, honestly ambitious man con
siders a problem from every possible stnnd
point, nnd knowledge thus ohtnlned through
careful analysis and Investigation can be
rendered valuable In almost every phase of
life and Is about the only capital that can
not In* lost.
The word ambition is frequently abused
by attributing to It merely selfish motives
for personal prominence, whereas to all
broad-minded men, such as the heroes of
the past and present, the welfare of their
country nnd Its people must hnve been their
snperlntlve ambition, otherwise their suc
cesses could not hnve hern so general.
It Is true that "nothing succeed* like
success." and with each victory the hero
moat Justly recclvoa certain credit aud
f (false. Ilml bin aspirations and efforta
►ecu of a less meritorious nature ho would
have »*eu proportionately censured. Like
the diamond, true merit will shine, no mat
ter how adversely criticised^
It may have l»een wise to charge Crom
well to "fling away ambition." but when
accepting this advice tn a wholesome man
ner to be applied to life generally one necea*
snrlly maims the greatest motive power
kunwti to tunn.
Ambition, like all characteristic*, may he
come distorted; but when this Is tho mum
It Is humanity and not ambition that should
tw corrected.
A Real “Mother Gootft.”
Did you know that “Mother Goose*'
tyas once a real, live woman? Her
maiden name was Elisabeth Foster and
she was born In Charieaton. Maas.,
April 5, 1665. She wbi goodly to look
upon nnd had many admirers, among
whom was one Isaac Vergoosc or
Goose, a widower of twice her age, with
ten children. Love laughed at thin
houseful, and Elisabeth married Isaac
in 1632. To this union were born six
more children. You can imagine the
many ways that a good-natured woman
like Elisabeth must have devised to en-
HAZING.
T'
By MR8. JOHN A. LOGAN.
"Wright, 1007. by W. It. HenrsU
IK army nut! navy schools and the
many colleges and universities of
this country have been afflicted with
the spirit of hazing .to such an ex
tent nt different times that these Institu
tions have been threatened with embarrass
ment on account of It. More than once the
barbarous custom lias l»eeii carried so far
that dentli lias overtaken t|i** victims of
this mad spirit. It Is a common thing for
boys and young men to be maimed for life
by the treatment tiler received at the
bands of their school fellows. The brute
that Is In all mankind often manifests It
self in a genuinely brutal manner.
In most cases one class of hoys have In
finitely the ndvnntnge of ths other In age,
numbers and physical strength, nml they
call It manly to persecute a weaker anil
younger lioy, claiming they are only testing
the courage ,nnd powers of endurance of
the vounger boys, or. In other words, to
see If they nre "gritty" nnd if they are
MADDOX-RUCKER BANKING CO.
CORNER ALABAMA AND BROAD STREETS.
Capital $200,000.00
Surplus and Uhdivided Profits $600,000.00
Commercial Accounts Invited.
/ Interest, compounded twice a year, is
V paid in our SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
i THOUGHTS OF LOVE
j AND OTHER SUBJECTS
By AUGUST STRINDBERG.
S POKE the scholar: "When a uinn and
a ‘woman meet In love n single tola
I* torn whose life la a feeling of posl
live well-being as long as harmony ex
ists. But this being is an exceedingly seiisl
five receiver. Il Is exposed toallsttirhaucei
by strange currents from all sfilea and ills
Inner*, and in this If resembles wlrelesi
telegraphy.
"For this reason disharmonious relations
between mnu and wile are the greatest
suffering in es is tenet*, rufiiitbfuluess Is a
cosmic crime which places oue of the par
ties lu perverse relations to 111* or her ——*
sex.
exposed to terrible alternate currents—and
she at times hate* and at other times lov
the woman who Is her rival. Very often
she may become the friend of her husband’:
ulTinity, but still of loner she becomes her
cneiuy.
"And whoever steps In between t
lug persons does not do so uiipunlsh
liutred which lie onuses Is so terrible that
lie may be paralysed by the discharges and
lose all energy and plea: —
That Is way I say:
Spoke the teacher: "-Ho you reinejplier the
Indian drama. TrvnslV A penitent who re
tires Into solitude to purify Ills soul by glv
lug up the pleasure of this world may at
last be endowed with such higher mental
nnd spiritual qualities that hi* power be
comes dangerous to the lower dlvlnltle
"To delay the spiritual development of
th$» penitent Indrn sent nu Apsnrn, n kind
of divine bajndcre, to disturb the pence of
wind of the penitent nml to seduce him.
"How, then, should the seduced have n
feeling of guilt ? IIow should he be aide to
regret that which has happened- without
any fault of his?
*Xow. the poet Is in some respects dif
ferent from the penitent, aud to lx* aide to
describe life lu all its phases and terrors
he must have lived himself.
"Whnt would Shakespeare hnve been a*
» poet If he bad lived the life of a good
toy—If lie had carried on his father's hon
est trade and In his hours of leisure had
written only of the little things he would
then have seen?
Thou Shalt Not Steal.
While we take the highest nnd
brighten outlook upon the conditions
of our country, we are fully awake u
the necessities of certain fundamental
reforms. Among them wo ask for a
sweeping and drastic repeal of the
Amendments to the old law*. "Thou
shalt not steal.” Note that In the
original form it Is brief and definite.
It makes no distinction between steal
ing that which belongs to one other
person and that which belong* to the
public. It has no cognisance of the do.
velopment oi the corporate idea. It
does not say one shall not ateal. or a
corporation shall not ateal; or stealing
may not be done except for a good
purpose from one careless of or Indif
ferent to or Ignorant of, the existence
of property. It does not except steal
ing done by agents or with the ap
proval of human law. It almply says
“Thou shalt not steal." One has no
use for a lawyer to Interpret iL It la
all there and it has no double mean
ing.—Our Country.
calculated to become courageous men—lg-
norlng their own cowardice and cruelty in
such Inhumane persecution of their younger
and weaker victims.
At . West I'olnt and Annapolis In time
past tin- upper classes hnve enrrled hazing
so far that suits hnve been brought against
the perpetrators of IkhIH** ••*«—* -™ *—
Being government lustl ,
congress has been solicited to stop the sav
age custom. The netlon of congress toward
both schools has had a wholesome effect,
resulting In* the suppression of tlio 7 custom
to n great extent. . It wonld have saved
permanent Injuries to cadets and midship
men If drastic measures had been adopted
years ago that would have stopped basing
altogether.
In nil the colleges and universities the
system has been carried further than In the
schools of the government. I remem tor
that years ngo General M. J». Leggett’s
*1. I>. Leggett. Jr.. Was Imzed nt n college
nnd whIJe blindfolded fell nml broke hi*
neck. Ills mother never recovered from
the horror of the event, nnd followed her
Idolized son to the grave soon afterword.
Any number of tragedies could be traced
to the malicious mischief of baser* tying
toy. to railroad mils nnd allowing them to
to killed, or placing /hem lu a* position
which Jeopardised their lives nnd where
nothing short of a miracle could save them.
It seemx s wheu tovs or nien get together
on mischief bent, that their m|ud* are very
fruitful In conceiving means of torture of
their fellows.
It Is claimed that thnk whole people are
making grent progress m civilisation, and
yet we nre eon fronted by the fact that In
many respects the natural brutality lurking
In nil men break* out with great savage-
ness now nnd again where It Is least ex
pected. There I* much com plaint thin year
ngnlust the disposition In the pupils lu the
high schools to base one another, the U[
classes perpetrating all kinds of erne,,..,,
upoii the members of the flrst-yenr classes.
The matter, It Is claimed, has assumed «o
very serious n piinse in the Washington
schools that Superintendent rhnncellor felt
t necessary to call the attention'of the
tonrtl of education to the trouble. It has
tom attributed to various causes, ntnong
other* to the existence of fraternities In
the school*, which, it 1* charged, created
spirit of clnuntshinent on the part of tto
mouther* of the fraternities to domineer
over the non-meuitor*.
This charge I* Indignantly denied by tho
"frats," ns they term themselves. They
Insist that they help each other in very
iniiny ways by exertlug n beneficial influence
over the monitors of the fraternities. In
•fef »yi«I»thl»o with those who hnve
difficulties nnd misfortunes, and encourage
the diffident or unfortunate pupils some
times to such nn extent that those who
would not otherwise hnve passed examina
tion* nre aide to do so through the help
from brother or sister members. They dis
claim any participation in the basing of
any of the high school pupils. They de
clare that there Is nothing which can take
the place of fraternities nnd imperishable
friendships that will be of Inestimable
value through life.
However It may end. It goes to prove
that, notwithstanding this I* nn age of
MiNWMB, •*-— •- ■ nder the inor*
«‘ba nee for
Discovery of the 8eat.
It was the explorer Behring, who,
on his last and fatal trip in 1741, dis
covered the seal herds of the north
Pacific; shipwrecked, he died on the
group of Inlands since named after
him. Various Russian adventurers fol
lowed Behring, rich merchants of Mon-
cow furnishing the ships and money.
Sea otter was what they sought in
these early days, and It was not till
these were practically exterminated
that the less lucrative fur seals were
hunted.—Our Country.
It is generally known that there It a
room In the British Museum set apart ex
clusively for forgeries. In the time the
museum has been In existence many spu
rious articles have nune Into Its possession.
!s seme ceses the **l*Je«** has hem on r'.eff
for some time before the forgery was dis
covered. The public Is not admitted to the
mom In which the articles are kept.
A walk through the British Mneenm and
• close examination of the pedal extremities
of ancient art there shows they are all tod
stoat the feet. 'The Disk Thrower," a cel
ebrated specimen, has particularly tod ex
ample* of Incipient bunion Joints. If the
foot of the Farneee Apollo, used as a model
In most srt schools, represent* the foot of
the average Greek, corns and bunions must
bare torn common in that classkat country.
PEOPLE AND THINGS
GOSSIP FROM THE HOTELS
AND THE STREET CORNERS
After several months' work In the
Atlanta office of tho Seaboard Air Line,
helping to take care of the heavy
Jamestown Exposition travel. Travel
ing Passenger Agent Fred GeJaler, of
Memphis, ban returned to that city.
Few passenger men are better known
than Fred Bolster. He is the best sort
of a mixer and he knows somebody in
every town along the line of the Sea
board. From now on he will continue
making Memphis his headquarters und
will circulate around that city getting
easiness for his road. He was former
ly stationed in Atlanta and has a multi
tude of friends hero.
J. G. Cantrell, general Western agent
for the SMboard, and William Mc
Donald, commercial agent for the same
road In Birmingham, were In Atlanta
Friday on business for the road, and
at the same time circulating among
their friends. Mr. Cantrell makes his
headquarters In St. Louis, nnd Is one
of the best known railroad men In the
middle West.
Because of ill health necessitating a
position lu the west, Chief Clerk John
K. Dough try, of the auditor's depart
ment of the Atlanta, Birmingham &
Atlantic railroad, has resigned and has
accepted a position with a »road in
Texas. As a token of esteem in which
he Is held by his associates in Atlanta,
Mr. Doughtry was presented with a
handsome watch fob. Mr. Doughtry
has a multitude of friends in Atlanta
who hopo that the change to Texas may
benefit his health.
Dr. Erich ZoepfTel-Quellenstein, Ger
man consul with heudquarter* in At
lanta, will go to Charleston next Tues
day and act as the personal representa
tive of Kaiser Wilhelm II In presenting
a gift from his sovereign to Charles O.
Witte. Mr. Witte is going to retire
from tho German diplomatic service in
Charleston after thirty years' work.
While he Is In Charleston Dr. Zocpffel.
Quellenstein will participate In the
celebration of Enill Jahnz's Instulla
tlon ns temporary consul. It is be
lieved that Mr. Jahns will lator be
commissioned permanent consul.
Captain W. .1. Prestun, of the Fifth regl-
ment, national guard of (b-orgia, lias been
commissioned major to mim-ed Major V.
II. Bbearer, who was recently Ht-cted to the
position of lieutenant colonel. Captain Pres-
ton formerly commanded Company M.
Friday night General Clifford !,. Auder-
son will to the guest of the officer* of the
regiment nt n banquet to to given at
the Ktownh cafe, nr, Saturday. Major B, U.
Pomeroy will to elected to succeed Gen
eral Anderson ns colonel of the Fifth reel-
men t.
During the corning Confederate Veterans'
reunion, which will be held In Augu*tn ou
Xovemtor 12 nml 13. there will to a cqieclnl
reunion of the survivors of Cobb's Legl<
the famous command led by General The
ns U. It. Cobb until to was killed lu a
desperate charge nt Fredericksburg
December, 1862.
The survivor* of the legion nre scattered
throughout several states nnd effort* are
being made to get ns uisny of them togeth’
— ns possible.
It Is also proposed to secure nt this re-
union the preseuoe of Mrs. Hoke Bndth and
Mr*. Henry Jackson, of Atlanta, and Mrs.
A. L. Hull, of Atheu(. the three dnughtora
of the famous general.
In the office of-the sheriff Thursday two
gallant heroes of tlm civil war, who
fought bn opposing rides, met each other
and shook hands for the first time since
the roar of the famous conflict died nwuy.
These were Colonel L. P. Thomas, of
Atlanta, who led the Forty-sccoud Georgia
In many n bloody charge during the fight
ing around Atlanta, nnd t'olonel Gilbert
Dwight Munson, who commanded the Her-
cuty-elghth Ohio and supported Sherman
In hi* effort to rapture Atlanta and com
plete bis march to the sea. The regiments
which the two veterans commanded then
came fit uncomfortably close touch with
each other frequently.
Colonel Munson, who Is a prominent law
yer or U>* Angeic*. is ou a trip notitn look
ing over the old battle fields on which he
fought, and when be learned tbnt Colonel
Thomas also commanded n regiment lu the
Atlanta fight he <*0110(1 to renew the mem
ories of more than forty years ago.
The richest woman In Great Britain Is
Miss Kutfly Charlotte Talbot, who owns
two magnificent estates which she Inher
ited from her father, worth almut 87,000.009.
Another rich woman la Mias Alice de Botha-
child, who Is very charitable and has a
great bobby for gardening.
vKven If we do not know much of the
great English poet we can see fmm his
writings what a stormy life he must havn
lived. There is lutrdly a misfortune which
he has not known, hardly a passion which
he has not felt. Hatred and love, passion
‘A true poet should, and must, sacrifice
hts own individuality for Ills work. There
fore. when I think of a suitable monument
to Shakespeare I see It like this: Hercules
lighting Ids own pyre on Mount Oetn, see-
rtnejug his own life as nn offering to hu
manity.
"To hoar tlqir is delight. Isn’t It?"
Aud the scholar replied: "Forsooth, you
can untie aud you can tie—uotV you bin a
untied me!"
Spoke tho teacher: "Life is difficult to
" and the fates of men appear to he
night* only. Therefore. If Is hard
lp»W to act III life, what to believe I ft, what
to hnve faith In, and what party to serve.
"This fate is not the Inevitably blind
fate, but the task which Is given to every
man—the pensum which he must go
through.
"The Theosophlsts call It Knrnin and be-
llevc that It Is connected with a past
which we remember only Indistinctly. Who
ever discover* Ids fate early, nml live* ac
cordingly without comparing his lot In Ilf*
with that of others, without envying others
who seem to he better ofl—that persou has
discovered himself nnd It will he easier
for him to go through life. Util in times
when nil desire the same lot In life a vain
effort results, an effort to change the fat*
of those who are unfortunate that It might
become like that of tho more fortunate one*.
"From (his arise all disharmonies aud ull
frictions, mill they arc very old. man?
people try to struggle against their fata
believing that they can Improve It."
Asked the scholar: "If this he so why
nre we then not told our Knrtim from the
beginning?"
Replied the teacher: "From pure charity.
No man would to able to go through life
If he knew Ids fate In ndvnnee nnd be
sides there must be left to him n certain
freedom without wjdch he would he nothing
but n olnythlng Furthermore, the sages
think i* U the great voyage of discovery
In search of fate tenches men ntnny things. *
ARMY-NAVY ORDERS
AND
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.
Army Orders.
Washington, Nov. 8.—Cnptnlu Bush S.
Wells, from Eighth to Fourteenth cavalry,
fnptnln Osmou Lit robe, Jr., from Four
teenth to Eighth cavalry: Lieutenant
Charles A. Vnrnutn. retired, detained with
organized militia of Idaho; Captain William
J. I'ardet* Twelfth Infantry; Captain WII-
Ham M. Wright. Hecond infantry, and Cap
tain Andre Brewster. Ninth Infantrv; First
Lieutenant Walter B. McCusky, Twentv-
rtrst Infantry: First Lieutenant Frank It.
toutf. .Ninth Infantry, and First Lieutenant
G. II. Dockery. Jr.. Third infantry: Hecotnl
Lieutenant G. V. Heldf. Twenty-fifth Infan
try:- Hecoml Lieutenant Hainucl J. Hut her-
land. Thirteenth Infantry, and Hecond Lien*
tenant Edmund B. Itiglehnrt. Third Infan
try, to Fort Leavenworth, for examination
for promotion.
Major **
Infantry,
board Incapacitated for active service <
count of disability incident thereto, .re
tired.
Navy Orders.
Lleitteunnt T. L. Oxhuru. commissioned;
Commander V. S. Nelson, detached navy de
partment; to command I'nntbcr.
Movements of Vessels.
Panther ordered commissioned November
8, navy yard, New York.
Couldn’t Blow Out the Light.
An electric light globe securely stow,
ed away in the grip of a pretty High
land Park co-ed almost caused pan
demonium In her rooming house Tues
day night nnd badly scorched her
clothing. The girl, who had Just como
to the college from her country home,
did not know the workings of an in
terior electric system.
With her roommate away, she pre
pared for tod alone with tho. light
burning. The glare disturbed Iter rest
and she decided to hide Its usefulness.
It would neither blow out nor go out by
any exterior arrangements that she
could see. Finally despairing of her
efforts for darkness, she placed her
grip on a stand nnd placed the swing
ing light in it and closed the sections
together. When her roommate joined
her fbr the night she discovered the
odor of burned clothing and Its cause.
Because of the danger of students
blowing out the gus the college au
thorities have placed hanging electric
lights In nil the rooms. The switches
are on a door sill securely concealed
from view.—Des Moines Register.
Rare and Peculiar Drugs.
A writer In Wlasen fuer Alle throw*
some Interesting light on rare and i>e-
cullar drugs. Saffron, he points out,
would strlko nn ordinary observer as
decidedly expensive at $13 a pound (to
change marks into our coinage), until
told that ft Is composed of the central
small portions only of the flowers of
the crocus, 70.000 of which it takes to
make a pound. Attar of roaes sells
at $112 odd per pound, and It takes
10,000 pounds, or nearly five tons, of
roses to obtain one pound of the oil.
Aconite, extracted from the root of
munkshood. is said to be the very
strongest poison extant, the dose be
ing one-six hundredth of a grajn. It
is sold at the rate cf $10K per ounce.
Turning from the vegetable to the
animal world tn search of rare drugs,
the writer refers to the musk of the
Asiatic deer, which at $24 to $30 an
ounce must be a prlxe to the wily hunt
er. In some of the tropical seas, a
floating, sweet-smelling mass of am
bergris Is met with worth at present
$30 per ounce, or $480 per pound In
the market. The ambergris is said to
be the diseased biliary product of the
whale.
Another peculiar product In use as a
drug i« tt Solution of tilt* pure V&SSGl
of the rattlesnake, given occasionally
in malignant scarlet fever; while lee*
strong. If perhaps hardly less repul
sive, is powdered cockroach, which. In
six-grain dotes, has been prescribed,
with foot! effect. It la said, for dropsy*
—Philadelphia Record.
An enterprising scbMors grinder of Lo*
Angeles. Cal., has mounted his grinder on
sn automobile, using the car's power al*»
to run the grinder, and now rides from
place to place Inetead of walking.